221The Two DoorwaysFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.389 State: 2/13 |
Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Provenance: | Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
Paper size: | 209 x 299 mm |
Plate mark size: | 201 x 292 mm |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
Colour of the paper: | ivory |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
Note on the paper: | |
Tab?: | no |
Watermarks: | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Ink colour: | black |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | Some pale plate tone, darker near the top and side plate edges |
Note on foul biting: | Granular foul biting, with a directional effect, over the figure standing in the gondola, the closed doorway, the lower part of the buildings and the water at right; acid droplets at top centre and to the right of them, at the plate edge |
Print note: |
Whistler's sign on plate: | no |
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: | 'SH' in graphite pencil at lower right on the verso (F.S. Haden, see Lugt 1227); 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
Dealers' stock nos: | no |
Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W158 The Two Doorways- Trial proof with gondola' a lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
ID: | K1930202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.