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The Piazzetta

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1897.52
State: 5/9

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Bought from Arthur Tooth and Sons, (Tooth receipt, 2 December 1897), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1897; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:269 x 207 mm  
Plate mark size:252 x 181 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:The sheet edges are darkened almost to buff  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:partial Fleur de lis  
Medium:etching (and drypoint)  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light plate tone, slightly darker at the upper plate edge and at the bottom of the image  
Note on foul biting:foul biting near the plate corners, with traces of acid droplets and other plate surface disturbances near the lower right corner; scratches at the top of the plate remain visible  
Print note:The only possible drypoint appears to be on the archway under the clock; note, however, that in Kennedy's second state, there are two small patches of right-left diagonal shading on the left side of the column, above the butterfly signature--they are not present in the this impression of the third state  

 

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:butterfly 'imp' in the lower right margin  
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:medium-large shaded butterfly  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:'2125' at lower centre on verso; '24.33' in blue at lower right on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W155 The Piazetta 1st State (State underlined)' at lower centre on the verso and 'Formerly in White frame' at lower right on the verso, both by C.L. Freer; 'The Piazetta' at lower centre on the verso.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1890304  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.