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Long Lagoon

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession no: ?

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840 - d.1892), London; sold per G. Lauser to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, May 1888, as part of an album of the Second Venice Set for £52.10.0 (stock no. 14359); bought by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), Boston, 1890; bequeathed to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 1924.  

 

Paper size:160 x 227 mm  
Plate mark size:152 x 227 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):japan  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:even, pale radiating tone, heavier at the bottom and wiped with strokes radiating from the centre outwards along the bottom; some bubbling at right  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:  

 

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:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'AWT' (Thibaudeau, not in Lugt) in graphite pencil on verso of tab  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'13' on verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K2030205  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.