193The DoorwayFitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeAccession no: P.2-2008 State: 11/20 |
Collection credit: | Bought from the Gow Fund with the help of the Art Fund and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund |
Image credit: | Photo © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK |
Provenance: | Deprez & Gutekunst, London, 1891, sold for £6.0.0 to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, (stock books); sold in 1891 to an unknown collector. Harris Schrank Fine Prints, New York; consigned to Christie’s sale, New York, 1 May 2007 lot 22 ($38,400); bought by C. G. Boerner; sold to Fitzwilliam Museum, 2008. |
Paper size: | 298 x 206 mm |
Plate mark size: | 294 x 200 mm |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
Colour of the paper: | tan |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
Note on the paper: | 'antique' |
Tab?: | yes |
Watermarks: | no |
Medium: | etching, drypoint and roulette |
Ink colour: | dark brown |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | deep tone, mostly at the bottom, wiped vertically, with an effect almost like fine brushstrokes at right. |
Note on foul biting: | some texture/grainy effects. |
Print note: | A very good impression, with uneven inking at the edges, particularly at lower left and right. |
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: | pencil butterfly of 1886 on big tab 49-69mm from left |
Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
Notes on inscriptions: | |
Collector's mark: | no |
Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 19900' |
Misc inscriptions by others: | 'C // a19900 // exceptionally fine // em- // 611.' written sideways one verso. |
Source of information: | WEP |
ID: | K1880619 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.