240WheelwrightIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, BostonAccession no: ? State: 9/9 |
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Provenance: | Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840 - d.1892), London; sold per G. Lauser to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, May 1888, as part of an album of the Second Venice Set for £52.10.0 (stock no. 14359); bought by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), Boston, 1890; bequeathed to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 1924. |
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Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
Colour of the paper: | cream |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
Note on the paper: | cream darkened to buff |
Tab?: | yes |
Watermarks: | no |
Medium: | etching |
Ink colour: | brown |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | tone lightly wiped in curving horizontal strokes, accentuating space. |
Note on foul biting: | texture at the top, foul biting, flecks of acid at top right |
Print note: | a slightly thin impression in light brown ink |
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: | pencil butterfly of 1886 |
Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
Notes on inscriptions: | |
Collector's mark: | 'AWT' (Thibaudeau, not in Lugt) in graphite pencil on verso of tab |
Dealers' stock nos: | no |
Misc inscriptions by others: | '13' centre verso |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
ID: | K2330508 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.