200Nocturne: PalacesScottish National Gallery , EdinburghAccession no: ENGLISH 894 State: 12/12 |
| Collection credit: | Scottish National Gallery |
| Image credit: | |
| Provenance: | Purchased from Agnews by the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1979. |
| Additional acq. no: | P.2782 |
| Paper size: | 300 x 201 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 295 x 201 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | buff |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | 'BR' |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | superb vertical wiping of deep tone with some minor bubbling at the bottom and abrasion at the top. |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | A very fine atmospheric impression; it has a very smooth effect on the building at right; the tone makes it difficult to focus, with drifts of delicate drypoint, in quite broadly spaced lines, some fine lines, which augment the tone and blend with it. |
| 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' on verso, of 1886/1887 |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | pencil butterfly of 1886, tab 42-57 mm from left |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | n/a |
| Dealers' stock nos: | n/a |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | numbers covered ending '…32' and possibly '2x-' |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K2020904 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.