166Price's Candle FactoryLibrary of CongressAccession no: FP-XIX-W576, no. 154 State: 11/13 |  |
| Collection credit: | Pennell Fund, 1949 |
| Image credit: | Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891), London; possibly sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (possibly lot 205), bought by Frederick Keppel & Co., £2.5.0. Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York; sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), Naugatuck, CT, 1919; bought with the Pennell Fund by the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. |
| Paper size: | 245 x 337 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 152 x 227 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | many small inclusions (much debris) |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | pale overall; irregular patches of picking |
| Note on foul biting: | a few flecks and scratches |
| Print note: | This is the impression of the fourth state illustrated by Kennedy; note that the second, smaller butterfly signature may have been added for the reproduction? |
| 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: | small butterfly 'imp.'at lower left near platemark; large shaded butterfly 'imp' at lower left |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | '5' at lower right on the recto; '5.' at lower right on the verso (second possibly inscribed by Whistler) |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'JHH' blind stamp (Hutchinson, Lugt 2921), 'HM' stamp (H. Mansfield, Lugt 1342) and 'HW' (Whittemore, Lugt suppl. 1384a). |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | Title and Wedmore number at lower centre on the verso; [stylized device] in graphite at centre right verso, this may be Walter Dowdeswell's mark (see Lugt 799); 'Prices Candle Factory W.127' at lower centre verso; 'Hh xv' (the Hh not clear; the xv underlined and superscript) at lower right on the verso |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K1540402 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.