396Hôtel Lallement, BourgesFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.212 State: 1/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 10 November 1903), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 166 x 268 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 164 x 268 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: | PRO PATRIA |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | With light tone at the top and bottom; wide even bands along the left and right plate edges. |
| Note on foul biting: | Scattered flecks and tiny clusters. |
| Print note: | There are wide even bands of plate tone on the FGA's impressions of K374, K378, K381, K389, another impression of K399 and K400 |
| 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: | butterfly at lower right on the verso |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | 'Hotel Allement' (partly erased) at lower centre, and '1st Proof' ('st' superscript and underlined) at lower right all on the verso. '(No.1)' (the 'o' superscript) at lower left on verso, possibly by Whistler. |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 54-64 mm from left, height 2 mm |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | Note Whistler's spelling 'Allement' rather than 'Lallement' |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W331' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K3990103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.