310Her Majesty's Fleet: EveningFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1889.15 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & co., (receipt, 1889), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1889; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 140 x 219 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 140 x 219 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1800) ? |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | with selective tone, darker along the left side, at lower right and along the plate edges; traces of diagonal wiping marks |
| Note on foul biting: | very few scattered flecks; several left-right diagonal scratches over the masts and sails of the ships at far left |
| Print note: | The very deeply etched lines on the sails of the sloop to left of centre are (almost) overbitten; an approximately 8-mm-long slipped stroke is visible in Kennedy's illustration of his first and only state, it is not present on this impression |
| 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.4)' (the 'o' superscript) at lower left on the verso |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 142-154 mm from left, height 3 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: | 'W243' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K3260102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.