14Street at SaverneFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.225 State: 3/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Probably acquired from Whistler by Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 269 x 196 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 208 x 157 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid; much debris - even distribution, vertical chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | Seated woman holding scepter, spear, shield with cross with waves below her feet in crowned oval [mh note:Britannia?] |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | considerable plate tone on sky, pavement, wall at far right and over dark shading on houses; rays from lantern and walls of houses clean-wiped |
| Note on foul biting: | near sides and bottom of plate |
| Print note: | aquatint, sandpaper ground, or open bite used with horizontal shading in sky to produce more regular dark tone. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | 'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. [superscript 't'] Jacques.' |
| 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: | M. Smith records previous existence of inscription "S.H." in graphite and "2d" in red pencil on etching's margin. They were erased 1923.12.29. |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W11' on verso by C. L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0190403 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.