165From BillingsgateFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1892.19 State: 7/8 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891); sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 215), bought by Frederick Keppel & Co., £1.1.0; sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, September 1892 (Keppel receipt); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 202 x 316 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 149 x 226 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: | Arms of Amsterdam |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | uneven overall tone, darker at the lower left and right |
| Note on foul biting: | there is evidence of scraping between the lines extending to the bow at left and to the right of them |
| Print note: | The ink is a warm black. |
| 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: | 'JHH' blind stamp (J.H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921) ; stylized device at lower right on the verso (this may be a version of Walter Dowdeswell's mark; see Lugt 799) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | illegible inscription at lower left on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1680603 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.