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Archway, Brussels

Art Institute of Chicago
Accession no: 1938.1867
State: 1/1

Collection credit:The Clarence Buckingham Collection  
Image credit:Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago  
Provenance:Clarence L. Buckingham (1854-1913), Chicago; bequeathed to his sisters; passed to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1938.  
Additional acq. no:R 5750  

 

Paper size:130 x 227 mm  
Plate mark size:127 x 216 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:crown over 'GR'  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:printed with some plate tone  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:There are remnants of old work, including a head to left of the woman and child on the steps and the figure between the woman in the right foreground and the child diagonally behind her; these remnants print more clearly than on 1917.583.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'VANDENBROECK - DEBECKER - BOULANGER . 337' on shop sign  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'C.B.' (C. L. Buckingham, Lugt 497)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K3660102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.