UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Home > The Catalogue > Impression

Return to previous page

478

Robert Barr

Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession no: E.2533-1948
State: 1/1

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Sylvia Gosse (1881–1968); given to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1948.  
Additional acq. no:EE.2A  

 

Paper size:315 x 234 mm  
Plate mark size:112 x 90 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:heavy weight paper  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:n/a  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:distinct even plate tone  
Note on foul biting:some fine scattered pitting in the lower / right centre.  
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:'S.G.' (Sylvia Gosse) lower right recto  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Robert Barr / by Whistler' recto lower right; possibly the usual inscription on this edition on the verso with the print run no.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:KAp40108  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.