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Under Old Battersea Bridge

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.404
State: 1/3

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 9 November 1898) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:355 x 225 mm  
Plate mark size:214 x 137 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:De Erven De Blauw  
Medium:etching (and drypoint)  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Some plate tone near the plate edges, heaviest at the bottom  
Note on foul biting:scattered flecks  
Print note:The faint lines in the water in the foreground may be drypoint; this is a slipped impression so it is difficult to determine the medium of the lines between the piers of the bridge.  

 

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:butterfly  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'1st - Proof. Whistler' (the 'st' superscript, the signature underlined) in the lower margin  
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:'W280' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1760102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.