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Robert Barr

Hunterian Art Gallery
Accession no: 49931
State: 1/1

Collection credit:The Hunterian, University of Glasgow  
Image credit:Photo © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow  
Provenance:Sir Edmund Gosse. H. J. L. Wright, London. Bought from Alan G. Thomas, booksellers, Bournemouth, by the Hunterian Art Gallery, 1962, £20.  

 

Paper size:318 x 233 mm  
Plate mark size:110 x 90 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:brown  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:heavy weight, textured but regular, machine-made.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:There is a medium, fairly even, overall print tone.  
Note on foul biting:There are minor single pits.  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:no  
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  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Etching by James McNeill Whistler of Robert Barr / done at 13 Robert Street, Hampstead Road in 189' on recto, at lower right, below the platemark, in ink by Walter Sickert; inscribed; 'Note by Walter Sickert'  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:KAp40102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.