193The DoorwayKupferstichkabinett BerlinAccession no: 454-1882 State: 7/20 |  |
| 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: | 316 x 225 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 293 x 201 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove japan or Oriental |
| Note on the paper: | thick, a little shiny but half-transparent, like K1890310 and K1920314 |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light, generally even residual tone, somewhat more pronounced in bottom 1/5; some additional tone in shadows of doorway; tone smeared by finger bottom right corner |
| Note on foul biting: | fine pitting and granular tone above and across the arches and wall |
| Print note: | fingerprint bottom edge, centre |
| 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: | 'x' below platemark, left of signature |
| 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: | |
| Misc inscriptions by others: |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K1880306 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.