201The Bridge, Santa MartaFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1887.12 State: 9/9 |
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 Frederick Keppel & Co., by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1887; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
Paper size: | 293 x 201 mm |
Plate mark size: | 293 x 201 mm |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
Colour of the paper: | ivory |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Asian laid |
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: | light overall plate tone, very slightly darker along the lower edge |
Note on foul biting: | many scattered flecks; with larger patches of foul biting at upper left and lower centre and regular tone over the bridge, laundry hanging on it and figures standing on its span at right |
Print note: | The ink colour is a somewhat reddish brown |
Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly (faint) |
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 39-54 mm from left, 8 mm height; butterfly of 1886/1887 |
Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
Notes on inscriptions: | small unshaded butterfly |
Collector's mark: | 'SH' in graphite pencil at lower right on the verso (F.S. Haden, see Lugt 1227) |
Dealers' stock nos: | no |
Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W17' at lower left on the verso by C.L. Freer; 'W.171' at lower left on the verso. |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
ID: | K2040803 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.