230Riva, No. 2Scottish National Gallery , EdinburghAccession no: ENGLISH 881 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Scottish National Gallery |
| Image credit: | Scottish National Gallery |
| Provenance: | Printed by F. Salmon, Paris, for Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau, 1886. Ernest Stephen Lumsden (1883-1968); bought from Mrs E. S. Lumsden by the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1949. |
| Additional acq. no: | P.1740 |
| Paper size: | 232 x 326 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 206 x 300 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | buff |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | fine light-weight paper |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | n/a |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light even overall tone, cleaner at the bottom edge |
| Note on foul biting: | dots, particularly round the figures |
| Print note: | some vertical scratching at the bottom right edge |
| 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: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | None on sheet; '1st of 2 states' (note by E.S.Lumsden) on board |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K2060118 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.