143The Two ShipsFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.353 State: 5/5 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 359 x 213 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 208 x 133 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | 'D & C BLAUW' |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | very plate tone on the water |
| Note on foul biting: | traces at the lower right corner and lightly scattered over the hulls of the boats and water; the dark strip of foul biting, visible in Kennedy's illustration of the third state, appears to be mostly burnished out |
| Print note: |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
| 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: | '9158' at upper right on recto |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W116 Early proof ' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer; '£A' at upper right on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1480304 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.