233The Traghetto, No. 2Art Institute of ChicagoAccession no: 1927.5961 State: 4/9 |  |
| Collection credit: | The Charles Deering Collection |
| Image credit: | Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago |
| Provenance: | Charles Deering (1852- 1927), Chicago; given by his heirs to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1927. |
| Paper size: | 247 x 310 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 239 x 306 mm |
| Note on size: | It is actually trimmed to 4 mm outside the platemark; possibly both the trimming abd butterfly on the tab were done by someone later, not by Whistler |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | japanese |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | |
| Note on foul biting: | The large area of open bite or lavis covering about three-quarters of plate may correspond to the area of the plate that was scraped out and re-etched. |
| Print note: | A tonal area at upper left appears to have been produced mechanically but may be the result of an attempt to reduce the dark acid-etched or scraped out area. |
| 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 possibly erased and redrawn by another hand. |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | tab butterfly erased and awkwardly retraced?) |
| Collector's mark: | (Charles Deering, Lugt 516) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K1910302 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.