193The DoorwayIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, BostonAccession no: ? State: 13/20 |
Collection credit: | |
Image credit: | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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: | 292 x 202 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: | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Ink colour: | dark brown |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | graduated tone, lighter at the top, darker and wiped rather irregularly, but partly vertically, in the water |
Note on foul biting: | |
Print note: | slightly soft effect in the doorway |
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: | butterfly 'imp' |
Note on the tab: | tab 64-77 mm from left, pencil butterfly of ca 1886 |
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: | K1880607 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.