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Chelsea

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Accession no: P.82-1959

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK  
Provenance:Bequeathed by Guy John Fenton Knowles, 1959.  

 

Paper size:371 x 540 mm  
Plate mark size:133 x 207 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:pale buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:heavy weight wove card, possibly a duplex sheet  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light even tone  
Note on foul biting:small dots or flecks.  
Print note:warm black ink, looking brown on this paper, printed with slight retroussage.  

 

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:  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:  
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:'Artists Proof before letters', 'J A McNeil Whistler', 'Old Battersea [crossed out] Putney Bridge', all on recto  

 

Source of information:Museum records  
ID:K1820213  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.