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Old Putney Bridge

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.371
State: 1/7

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 9 November 1898) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:307 x 400 mm  
Plate mark size:201 x 295 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:Pro Patria  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:With uneven tone, darker near the plate edges  
Note on foul biting:Scattered flecks  
Print note:This impression differs from the Kennedy illustration of the first state in that the drypoint butterfly signature is quite blurry and the impression is unevenly printed, with the lines at upper left under inked.  

 

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:'imp.' butterfly  
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:large unshaded butterfly  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W145 Old Putney Bridge' a lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1780102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.