218The PiazzettaFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.182 State: 1/9 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 303 x 223 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 254 x 181 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet was removed from a book; with an old brown ink inscription ('32') on the recto |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | there appears to be a watermark, but the sheet is backed so it is not distinguishable |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | medium overall tone, slightly darker at the upper left and lower corners; bands of 'picking' at bottom |
| Note on foul biting: | With foul biting near the plate edges and corners and many acid droplets at the lower right; prominent scratches on the plate at top and left (most are left-right and right-left diagonals) and distinct scraping or burnishing marks at top centre |
| Print note: | There are many scratches as well as a slipped area on the dome at left (which looks something like drypoint) but there is no actual drypoint on the plate |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | two butterflies |
| 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: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | various erased inscriptions. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1890001 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.