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The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1888.9
State: 7/8

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:125 x 175 mm  
Plate mark size:125 x 175 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:partial top of Arms of Amsterdam  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:traces of tone near the plate edges; mottling from dust or lint in the ink at upper left  
Note on foul biting:scattered flecks  
Print note:The etched lines have broken down in the ares of darkest shading  

 

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 62-71 mm from left, height 3 mm  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:The tiny crown is similar to the devices inscribed on FGA 1896.48, Quai, Ostend, K352 and 1906.240, Courtyard, Brussels, K355  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:crown symbol  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W253' a lower left on the verso by C.L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K3570304  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.