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Chelsea

Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Accession no: 38.101
State: 5/5

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:George Reed Nutter (1863-1937), Boston, MA; gift of his estate to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, April 1938.  

 

Paper size:254 x 355 mm  
Plate mark size:132 x 205 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:quite stiff card-like  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:slightest overall tone, slight retroussage  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:rather a bland impression  

 

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:MFA (Lugt 282)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1820215  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.