97Chelsea WharfFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.326 State: 1/2 |  |
| 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: | 137 x 232 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 91 x 191 mm |
| Note on size: | . |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid (pre-1800), even distribution, much debris, horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | possible countermark? [illeg] |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | traces of light plate tone near plate edges |
| Note on foul biting: | small dark patch at upper left corner and light foul biting at lower left; a number of small corrosion marks, mostly at left but one also near right plate mark at centre |
| Print note: | lightly etched and rather greyish; only drypoint on figure with cart (?) ar left and, possibly, in sky. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | '1863--' |
| 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: | M. Smith notes previously existing inscriptions 'S.H.' and 'Chelsea Wharf, before the butterfly margin, the latter by C.L. Freer, in graphite on print's margin. They were erased 1924.02.12. |
| Collector's mark: | no 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W81 Chelsea Wharf 1st state' on verso by C.L. Freer; tiny blue dot near lower left corner on verso |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0890102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.