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Sketch after Cecil Lawson's "Swan and Iris"

Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession no: NAL 66.E.55
State: 5/6

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Published in Cecil Lawson, a Memoir by Edmund W. Gosse, 1883, between pp. 22 and 23.  

 

Paper size:220 x 146 mm  
Plate mark size:135 x 82 mm  
Other size:473 x 365 mm  
Note on size:sheet stuck on larger book page  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:even light plate tone  
Note on foul biting:loose pitting across whole plate, slightly more around the flower in the foreground  
Print note:  

 

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:no  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:verso red oval stamp 'National Art Library' L.31  
Dealers' stock nos:  
Misc inscriptions by others:  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K2410z05  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.