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Notre-Dame, Bourges

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 41.124.3
State: 1/1

Collection credit:Bequest of Louise Veltin, 1941  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 38335). Bequeathed by Louise Veltin to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941  

 

Paper size:222 x 130 mm  
Plate mark size:219 x 130 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:buff (possibly darkened at edges particularly at the right)  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:light weight 'antique' (pre 1800)  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching (and drypoint?)  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Light overall tone which looks brown  
Note on foul biting:Scattered dots  
Print note:A vivid impression; printed with a little retrousage, like more shadow on the lines at right edges  

 

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 3.)'  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:pencil butterfly of 1888/9  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'L.S.' in pencil; 'FB' pencil; and 'L. Veltin' pencil on verso  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 38335'  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Coll. Miss L. Veltin' on verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K4020103  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.