200Nocturne: PalacesFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1893.23 State: 11/12 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 19 June 1893), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1893; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 295 x 199 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 295 x 199 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: | 'DHK' countermark (Chicago watermark 108) |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | very heavy plate tone over the sky and water, with distinct vertical wiping marks; graduated tone in the centre with the lightest area to the left of the light; distinct horizontal wiping marks in this central area |
| Note on foul biting: | a patch of foul biting among the vertical shading on the water at right (this foul biting is visible in Kennedy's illustration of state VIII) |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp.' at lower right on the verso |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | small-medium unshaded butterfly |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Nocturne Palaces / Before the monogram' at lower centre on the verso and 'W168' at lower right on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2020803 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.