350Market Place, OstendKupferstichkabinett BerlinAccession no: 191-1908 State: 1/1 |
Collection credit: | |
Image credit: | Photo © Kupferstichkabinett Berlin |
Provenance: | Obach & Co., London; sold to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 1908 for £18. |
Paper size: | 97 x 133 mm |
Plate mark size: | 94 x 133 mm |
Note on size: | paper size includes tab |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
Colour of the paper: | ivory |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
Note on the paper: | |
Tab?: | yes |
Watermarks: | n/a |
Medium: | etching |
Ink colour: | dark brown |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | medium plate tone, slightly darker in lower half (wiped horizontally); narrow 'frame' of darker tone along the edges; faint butterfly lower left, left of the more prominently visible butterfly (lower left) |
Note on foul biting: | fine scattered pitting across middle ground |
Print note: | ink reticulation in bottom corners |
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: | not on recto |
Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
Note on the tab: | 91 mm from left, 2 x 10 mm |
Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
Notes on inscriptions: | |
Collector's mark: | n/a |
Dealers' stock nos: | n/a |
Misc inscriptions by others: | n/a |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
ID: | K3500103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.