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The Village Sweet Shop

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession no: 1943.3.8570
State: 1/1

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  
Provenance:Colnaghi's, London, 1927. Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943.  
Additional acq. no:B-10634  

 

Paper size:87 x 122 mm  
Plate mark size:81 x 122 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  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:some light tone along the left edge, at centre and at bottom  
Note on foul biting:granular foul biting at centre (partly burnished out on shutter); fingerprints bitten into plate a lower right  
Print note:  

 

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 30 to 43 mm from left; butterfly of 1887  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:If c.15945 is a Colnaghi stock no., it should be from 1927  
Collector's mark:'LJR' stamp (Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b)  
Dealers' stock nos:'c.15945' on verso by Harold Wright of Colnaghi's  
Misc inscriptions by others:Kennedy number on verso by Harold Wright  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K2510106  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.