194The GardenFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1902.121 State: 12/15 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from James McNeill Whistler, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1902; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 301 x 239 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 301 x 239 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | Arms of Amsterdam with RK countermark (not in Chicago) |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | with overall tone, darker over the lowest step and the water below it |
| 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 a later 'state' than FGA 1887.21 (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 59-77 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: | 'W180 From Mr. Whistler - June, 1902' by C.L. Freer |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2100703 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.