52Longshore menKupferstichkabinett BerlinAccession no: 458-1882 |  |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | Photo © Kupferstichkabinett Berlin |
| Provenance: | Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau (ca 1840 - d.1892), London; sold to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 1882 as part of a group of 301 prints for £685.7.3. |
| Paper size: | 201 x 261 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 153 x 225 mm |
| Note on size: | paper trimmed at bottom edge, part of the inscription cut off |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
| Note on the paper: | fibrous, some short brown fibres |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light residual tone, slightly darker at right edge and in top right and lower left corners. |
| Note on foul biting: | Some scattered pitting along right margin. |
| Print note: | Plenty of white lines lower left, possibly due to overcleaning of the plate. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler - 1859.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | see signature |
| 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: | |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Long Shore Men' and '24'? (lower part of no. cut off) recto bottom right |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K0450132 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.