188Old Battersea BridgeArt Institute of ChicagoAccession no: 1934.597 State: 7/7 |  |
| Collection credit: | Bryan Lathrop Collection |
| Image credit: | Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago |
| Provenance: | Bryan Lathrop (1844-1916), Chicago; passed to his wife; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1934. |
| Additional acq. no: | R 533 |
| Paper size: | 206 x 293 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 202 x 293 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | laid? or wove with simulated laid lines? see remarks for 1953.215 |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Printed with light plate tone, carefully wiped, and darker along the bottom of the plate. |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | There is a fairly prominent left-to-right diagonal scratch in the plate beween the central span of the bridge at right and beneath the right section of the span; drypoint shading on the houses is very faint. |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | The pencil butterfly dates from 1889/1890s. |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | n/a |
| Dealers' stock nos: | n/a |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | n/a |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K1770502 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.