188Old Battersea BridgeArt Institute of ChicagoAccession no: 1924.647 State: 5/7 |  |
| Collection credit: | Bequest of Ethel Wrenn |
| Image credit: | Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago |
| Provenance: | Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow probably before 1902. John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago; bequeathed to his family, 1911; bequeathed by Ethel Wrenn, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1924. |
| Paper size: | 257 x 406 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 203 x 296 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | 'EVH' |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light overall tone |
| Note on foul biting: | texture of dots and dashes |
| Print note: | A good looking impression, strong, despite fairly prominent 'wiping' scratches in the plate in the sky above the arch of the bridge at right and beneath the right section of the span. |
| 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 and 'imp.' in margin, lower left |
| 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: | pencil butterfly of 1890s |
| Collector's mark: | 'B.M.' stamp (B.B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394); and 'J.H.W.' (John H. Wrenn, Lugt 1475) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '148' underlined at lower right verso |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K1770402 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.