180Wapping - The PoolFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.175 State: 6/8 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 255 x 380 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 188 x 276 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet was removed from a book; with sew holes at the lower sheet edge |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | IM (MI?) countermark? |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light overall plate tone, somewhat darker near the plate corners; with an inky plate mark at top and right |
| Note on foul biting: | considerable foul biting at left, especially above and to the right of the butterfly signature |
| Print note: | Foul biting appears in (Kennedy's) fourth state of this print |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | butterfly 'imp' |
| 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: | large shaded butterfly |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '20' at lower right on the recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1740403 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.