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Wheelwright

Library of Congress
Accession no: FP-XIX-W576, no. 233
State: 6/9

Collection credit:Pennell Fund, 1940  
Image credit:Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division  
Provenance:Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow. H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 37320). Knoedler & Co., New York (stock no. 16309). Bought with the Pennell Fund by the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.  

 

Paper size:127 x 176 mm  
Plate mark size:126 x 176 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:'PRO PATRIA' (partial figure)  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light overall tone  
Note on foul biting:some dots (without granular foul biting)  
Print note:difficult to tell if Kennedy's illustration has the fine, dense, cross-hatched drypoint lines to right of wheel of the diagonal cross-hatched lines to right of chin of man by the wheel (see NYPL image)  

 

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 1885/1886  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'B.M.' stamp (B. B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394). 'J.A.W.' inscribed on verso (Wrenn?); 'ERJP' in circle (E. R. & J. Pennell, Lugt suppl. 874a)  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 37320' at lower left verso; '16309 MK' at lower centre verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:catalogue numbers, state and MacGeorge collection information in various hands on verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K2330515  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.