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Anacapa Island

Library of Congress
Accession no: FP-XIX-W576, no. 1app
State: 1/1

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division  
Provenance:Given to the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.  

 

Paper size:245 x 296 mm  
Plate mark size:230 x 296 mm  
Other size:140 x 238 image to edge mm  
Note on size:size is to the black line on paper; there is a platemark at bottom and right of the sheet - 45mm below heavy etched borderline and 23mm to right  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:card (possibly 'japan vellum')  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:no  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:There are faint scratches visible in the blank area below the borderline, as well as a faint horizontal ruled etched line 6mm below the borderline (the faint horizontal is barely visible on the other LC impression)  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:see inscription by others  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'U.S.COAST SURVEY … ' etc see Inscr.Note  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'PLATE No. 414. / ANACAPA …[etc]… & C. A. Knight'.  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:at the top, above the ruled frame, 'PLATE No. 414'; within the frame, at centre top, 'ANACAPA ISLAND'; at right, U. S. COAST SURVEY / A. D. BACHE, Supdt./ Sketch of ANACAPA ISLAND / IN / SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL / By Lieut. T. H. STEVENS, U. S. N. Assist. U. S. C. S. / 1854'; at left, 'Note. Anacapa Island is due East of Santa Cruz Island in (approx.) Lat. 34 [degrees] 00' and Long. 119 [degrees] 23' W. from Greenwich Observatory. Variation of the Magnetic Needle, 13 [degrees] 21' E'; at bottom centre, 'View of the Eastern extremity of Anacapa Island - from the Southward.'; at centre, a vertical arrow indicates 'Magnetic Meridian'; at the bottom, under the ruled frame, on the left, 'Drng by W. B. McMurtie>' and on the right, 'Engg by J. A. Whistler, J. Young & C. A. Knight.  
Collector's mark:DIVISION / OF PRINTS / L. C. Circular blue stamp on verso; 'LCH' in pencil  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'26'; '140 x 238' on recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:KAp10108  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.