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Savoy Scaffolding

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
Accession no: 8.1991
State: 1/1

Collection credit:Fogg Art Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Charles C. Cunningham, Jr.  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Charles C. Cunningham (1910-1979), Chicago; private collection, lent to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1991.  

 

Paper size:177 x 81 mm  
Plate mark size:177 x 81 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid'  
Note on the paper:'antique' (pre 1800) laid  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:thin edge of tone at top, more at bottom below wheelbarrow  
Note on foul biting:  
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:pencil butterfly late 1880s/1890s; 2mm height/15-24mm from right  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:pencil butterfly of ca 1888/1890.  
Collector's mark:'CCC' stamp (Cunningham, not in Lugt); present owner  
Dealers' stock nos:'C 354 -351'  
Misc inscriptions by others:121 [circled] K267 only state 'Gift from CCCjr to M Cohen Dec 1977'; 'Savoy Scaffolding only state'  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K2670113  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.