257Booth at a FairFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.337 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Rosalind Birnie-Philip, June 1905, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 132 x 97 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 132 x 97 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: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | pale even tone at the top, heavier tone at the bottom; picking at lower right |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks |
| Print note: | The only drypoint is the right-left diagonal shading in the dark area above the slightly bending figure; the drypoint is stronger on this impression than on 1903.40 |
| 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: | tab 23-35 mm from left, height 2 mm; butterfly of 1886/1887 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'RBP' in pencil (the P in more elaborate script; underlined with a curved line) (R. Birnie Philip, see Lugt 405 and 406 ) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W203 Booth at a Fair' a lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2490103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.