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Nocturne

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession no: ?
State: 9 l/9

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:H. Wunderlich & Co., New York; sold in 1890 to Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), Boston; bequeathed to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 1924.  

 

Paper size:  
Plate mark size:199 x 294 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:posthorn  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:dark tone wiped carefully, with the central area soft and pale at the horizon, wiped with radiating strokes outwards to suggest sunrise or set, slightly uneve, but highly dramatic; some tiny blips where the ink bubbled  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:The fine drypoint is very soft indeed, and appears to have disappeared from the ship entirely  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
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:'specially chosen' on verso  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:pencil butterfly of 1888/1889, tab 55-65 mm from left  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K1840405  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.