194The GardenFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1887.21 State: 11/15 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | 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: | 302 x 236 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 302 x 236 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | |
| Print tone: | with overall tone, darker over the steps in the gateway and on the water |
| Note on foul biting: | three acid spots at left; fairly regular foul biting at the lower right corner of the doorway, below the cat and to the right of the doorframe |
| Print note: | Catalogued at the FGA as the seventh state, but it is between Kennedy's seventh and eighth states and is an earlier 'state' than FGA 1902.121 (also originally catalogued as the seventh state) |
| 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: | tab 53-74 mm from left, height 8 mm; butterfly of 1886 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2100702 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.