181ChelseaFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1889.22 State: 5/5 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Published by the Print Sellers' Association. Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (Wunderlich receipt 7 September 1889), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1889; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 230 x 320 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 134 x 206 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: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | pale traces of tone |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks of foul biting, slightly les prominent than on FGA 1898.377 ('third state') |
| Print note: | warm black |
| 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: | butterfly under platemark |
| 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: | small pencil butterfly dating from 1890s |
| Collector's mark: | The Printsellers' Association with 'IC' at centre blindstamp (see Lugt 2050 and 2051) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W148 Fulham' at lower centre on the recto by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1820402 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.