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Venice

Baltimore Museum of Art
Accession no: 1996.48.12327
State: 1/1

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © The Baltimore Museum of Art  
Provenance:George A. Lucas (1824-1909), Paris; acquired by the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, 1996.  

 

Paper size:259 x 348 mm  
Plate mark size:200 x 295 mm  
Note on size:.  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint touched with gray wash  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:soft grey tone in the water and at the edges of the sky  
Note on foul biting:at bottom left and at the top left corner  
Print note:there is burr and retroussage on the ships, which gives the impression a very silky look  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
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:'M.I. LUCAS COLLECTION' stamp on verso  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'not catalogued / plate destroyed / only 6 proofs taken - all states - / Venice' on verso; similar inscription on recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K2310103  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.