185Old Putney BridgeFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.371 State: 1/7 |  |
| 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: | 307 x 400 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 201 x 295 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: | Pro Patria |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | With uneven tone, darker near the plate edges |
| Note on foul biting: | Scattered flecks |
| Print note: | This impression differs from the Kennedy illustration of the first state in that the drypoint butterfly signature is quite blurry and the impression is unevenly printed, with the lines at upper left under inked. |
| 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: | 'imp.' butterfly |
| 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: | large unshaded butterfly |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W145 Old Putney Bridge' a lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1780102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.