175Temple BarFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.4 State: 2/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), London, by 1910. Bought from Obach & Co. (Obach receipts, 10 January and 23 February 1905) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 393 x 260 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 214 x 138 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: | |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Irregular patches of tone, mostly at the upper left and centre |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: |
| 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 5406' at lower left on recto |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W133' at lower centre on the recto and 'W133 Temple Bar' at lower centre on the verso, both by C.L. Freer; '45a' (the 'a' superscript and underlined) at centre right on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1620202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.