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The Doorway

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Accession 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.