211Long VeniceHamburger KunsthalleAccession no: 30471 State: 8/8 |
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| Image credit: | |
| Provenance: |
| Paper size: | 127 x 308 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 127 x 308 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | very fine structure |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown ink |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light tone, more and wiped at bottom left |
| Note on foul biting: | slight grain in the water to right of butterfly; fine pitting over cityscape and along top margin |
| Print note: | good impression with light drypoint; vertical bands of ink reticulation across plate; some of the lines in the sky are not clearly printed |
| 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: | on tab |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | pencil butterfly of 1886, 47 mm from left, 7 x 16 mm |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | verso right: brown seal of Hamburg with text 'KUNSTHALLE ZU HAMBURG' (Lugt 1233) and '30471' |
| Dealers' stock nos: | verso lower centre: '1780' |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | lower right verso: '11' and 'Long Venice 1877' |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K2120511 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.