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184

Hurlingham

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1905.178
State: 1/4

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Published by the Print Sellers' Association. Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891); sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 231), bought by Thomas Way (1837-1915), London, £2.5.0; sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:197 x 318 mm  
Plate mark size:136 x 201 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:'IV' countermark  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:traces of tone near the plate edges  
Note on foul biting:scattered flecks; curved scratch in the plate, above and to the right of the sails  
Print note:The impression appears to be printed with retroussage, but printed unevenly, with patches where the ink did not fill the lines  

 

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:The Printsellers' Association with 'VR' at centre blindstamp (see Lugt 2050 and 2051); 'JHH' blindstamp (J.H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921); stylized device at centre right on the verso (this may be a version of Walter Dowdeswell's mark; see Lugt 799)  
Dealers' stock nos:'934907'  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1810102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.