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168

Under Old Battersea Bridge

National Gallery of Australia
Accession no: 78.530
State: 2/3

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Australia  
Provenance:Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), London. Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), London. Charles C. Cunningham (1910-1979), Chicago. Acquired through Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara, CA, by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1978.  
Additional acq. no:111959  

 

Paper size:336 x 196 mm  
Plate mark size:214 x 138 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:medium weight, 'antique' laid paper, torn from a ledger.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:'PD'  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:A rowboat with two figures is roughly sketched in charcoal in the foreground.  
Print tone:  
Note on foul biting:  
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:  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'boat drawn by Whistler' on recto, at lower centre; lower left, 'w.a/l/l.28 / k176 II'; on verso, at lower right, in brown ink, old inscription relating to accounts from ledger book.  

 

Source of information:Museum records  
ID:K1760z01  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.