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Old Battersea Bridge

Whereabouts unknown
Accession no: n/a
State: 4/7

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo Whistler Etchings Project / E. G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (1910)  
Provenance:Listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York, 1910.  

 

Paper size:  
Plate mark size:200 x 291 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:n/a  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):n/a  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:n/a  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:warm black  

 

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:'x. 10'  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):n/a  
Notes on inscriptions:The addition of the number of impressions (if that is what the '10' means) is unusual. The pencil butterfly, written in pencil below the platemark, probably dates from 1879.  
Collector's mark:n/a  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:n/a  

 

Source of information:E. G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (1910)  
ID:K1770301  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.