446Balcony, AmsterdamBritish MuseumAccession no: 1980-03-22-23 State: 4/4 |
Collection credit: | |
Image credit: | Photo © Trustees of the British Museum |
Provenance: | Christopher Mendez (est. 1965), London; acquired by exchange by the British Museum, London, 1980. |
Additional acq. no: | PRN: PPA52169 |
Paper size: | 272 x 166/168 mm |
Plate mark size: | 270 x 168 mm |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
Colour of the paper: | cream |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | n/a |
Note on the paper: | browned |
Tab?: | yes |
Watermarks: | n/a |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Ink colour: | dark brown |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | residual tone; stripes of tone along left and right margins |
Note on foul biting: | fine loose pitting on woman in doorway and figures on balcony; a few pits on framing façades; minor foul biting lower left corner |
Print note: |
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: | |
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | |
Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
Note on the tab: | tab 35-46 mm mm from left |
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 and museum records |
ID: | K4050304 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.