185Old Putney BridgeFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.176 State: 4/7 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 300 x 450 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 202 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: | Pro Patria |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | With uneven tone on the water and sky |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | Kennedy did not illustrate an impression of the second state, and it is not clear if his written description corresponds to this impression; see the State Description below, with notes based on a comparison to Kennedy's reproduction of the third state. |
| 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: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '145 Putney Bridge Before the vertical lines in the butterfly- / From Thomas Way, June, 1905' ('Putney Bridge' underlined) written at lower right on the recto by C.L. Freer, erased. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1780202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.