196The Little MastKupferstichkabinett BerlinAccession no: 453-1882 State: 2/8 |  |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | Photo © Kupferstichkabinett Berlin |
| Provenance: | Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840 - d.1892), London; sold to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 1882, as part of a group of 301 prints for £685.7.3. |
| Paper size: | 317 x 226 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 266 x 186 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | japanese |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Light plate tone, slightly darker in bottom corners, a cloud-like area of lighter tone in the sky upper left. |
| Note on foul biting: | Fine pitting across plate, mainly on figures, least pitted in sky; foul biting in lower right corner, at top edge right, and along a 'tidal line' bottom left |
| Print note: | Shadow of earlier state behind children lower right; horizontal scratches bottom right corner. |
| 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: | below platemark left in pencil: butterfly 'imp' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | not on recto |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: | - |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | |
| Dealers' stock nos: | |
| Misc inscriptions by others: |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K1850110 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.