42Nursemaid and ChildBritish MuseumAccession no: 1872-07-13-384 State: 2/2 |  |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | Photo © Trustees of the British Museum |
| Provenance: | Bought from 'Mr Thomas' - probably Edmund Thomas (1842-1883) - by the British Museum, London, 13 July 1872. |
| Additional acq. no: | PRN: PPA49833 |
| Paper size: | 129 x 160 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 98 x 131 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The paper is flecked with occasional pale brown fibres. The edges are cut. A close examination of the paper was prevented as the etching has been attached to the mount. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | not visible from recto |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | The print tone is light and fairly even. |
| Note on foul biting: | There is foul biting at the edges and lower left corner around the signature. There is a fluid line bounded by pitting at the lower edge (boundary line where stopping out varnish applied). The pitting is densest in the foreground; there are also some dense areas of pitting in the sky and to the right of the woman. |
| Print note: | There are two lightly etched vertical parallel lines evident at the upper left corner (?). |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | none on recto |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | none on recto |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | none on recto |
| Dealers' stock nos: | none on recto |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | none on recto |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0370211 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.