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The Fleet: Monitors

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1888.4
State: 1/2

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 1 May 1888), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1888; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:140 x 221 mm  
Plate mark size:140 x 221 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:Arms of Amsterdam  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:selectively wiped, cleaner at centre and right and heavier at bottom and left; with distinct curving, left-right and right-left diagonal wiping marks  
Note on foul biting:a few scattered flecks  
Print note:The wiping is similar to that on some Venice etchings  

 

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 48-61mm from left, height 4 mm  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others: 'W239' at lower right on the verso by Freer  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K3180104  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.