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Nocturne: Palaces

Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Accession no: 27.1404
State: 11/12

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840 - d.1892), sold for £12.12.0 to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 2 May 1888 (stock no. a17889), sold to A. J. Forbes Leith, 1889, returned in exchange to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 5 April 1890, sold in 1891 to unidentified collector. Horatio Greenough Curtis (d. ca 1923), Boston; Mrs Horatio Greenough Curtis; bequeathed to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, June/July 1927, received September 1940.  
Additional acq. no:M 35571  

 

Paper size:301 x 200 mm  
Plate mark size:294 x 200 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):modern laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:none visible  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:heavy tone upper and lower parts, wiping marks very clear  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:Not so vivid in line as Boston's K2020605, but superb inking  

 

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:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:tab 43-57 mm from left; pencil butterfly of 1886  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:MFA (Lugt 282)  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 17889'  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K2020804  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.