200Nocturne: PalacesFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1906.39 State: 1/12 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Possibly bought from Whistler by F. Keppel & Co., 1891. Bought from Albert Rouillier, Chicago, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1906; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 370 x 284 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 295 x 200 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: | Strasbourg Lily/'VGZ' (Chicago watermark 292 or 293) |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | traces of tone near the plate edges and across the water at bottom |
| Note on foul biting: | a number of scratches or abandoned lines, notably an 'x' over the upper window on the right palace and a larger, curving 'x' that extends across it and onto the water below |
| Print note: | A state before Kennedy's State I. |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp' and butterfly 'imp.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | '1st State 1st proof-' and '1st State - 1st Impression -' ; the former before and the latter after the butterfly |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | butterfly of 1885/1886 |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | '9911' at lower centre on recto; '856' at lower centre on recto |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '11' (?) at upper right on the verso; 'W168' at lower left on the recto and 'W168 From Rouillier, Jan 06' at lower right on the recto by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2020103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.