240WheelwrightNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DCAccession no: 1943.3.8557 State: 9/9 |  |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| Provenance: | Bought on 14 January 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943. |
| Additional acq. no: | B-10621 |
| Paper size: | 132 x 176 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 126 x 176 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | buff |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Asian laid |
| Note on the paper: | The paper colour is ivory discoloured to buff |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | some light tone over the floor in the foreground and middleground |
| Note on foul biting: | many scattered flecks, tiny acid droplets and directional patches; regular foul biting at left and upper center and a series of prominent acid drops at the upper right corner |
| Print note: | New state after Kennedy's fifth and final state |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly at lower left and a faint trace of a second butterfly on the beam at upper left |
| 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 32 to 48 mm from left; butterfly of ca 1886 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'LJR' stamp (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | '(DD 772)' at lower right on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Wheelwright' at lower left on the verso; '4' at lower right on the verso; '500oo' (the oo superscript) at lower right on the verso |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2330511 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.