166Price's Candle FactoryFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.170 State: 3b/13 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 197 x 325 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 150 x 225 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet was removed from a book; with sew holes along the top sheet edge. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | Pro Patria |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | With irregular tone on the sky and water |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | A new state that appears to be between Kennedy's states I and Ia (if the slipped stroke he noted on only one impression really should be considered as a state) |
| 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: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Price's Candle works, early 1st state before the butterfly and before the topsail.' originally written by C.L. Freer in margin, erased 22 March 1924, according to FGA folder sheet. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1540104 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.