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Old Battersea Bridge

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.370
State: 5/7

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:205 x 295 mm  
Plate mark size:201 x 295 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:Hunting horn in shield, with 4 over upside-down V below (probably Hunting Horn in shield, Vander Ley Chicago watermark 186)  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:with graduated plate tone, wiped cleanest under the central span of the bridge, with the darkest tone at the upper right and on the water.  
Note on foul biting:scattered flecks  
Print note:  

 

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:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp-'  
Note on the tab:tab 43-54 mm from left, height 4 mm  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W 141 1st State or trial before the clouds and with small butterfly' at lower right on the verso by C.L. Freer  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1770503  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.