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Wapping - The Pool

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1892.21
State: 3/8

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891), London; sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 227), bought by Frederick Keppel & Co., £4.0.0; sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, September 1892 (Keppel receipt); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:278 x 395 mm  
Plate mark size:190 x 275 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:Pro Patria  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Very light, even tone; with an inky plate mark  
Note on foul biting:Scattered flecks and scratches  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'JHH' blindstamp (J.H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921); 'F' blindstamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt); stylized device drawn at lower right on the verso (this may be a version of Walter Dowdeswell's mark; see Lugt 799)  
Dealers' stock nos:'9359' erased, proper left below image, verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W 143' written by C.L. Freer wrote, erased, mid bottom edge, recto.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1740302  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.