74The Little RotherhitheBritish MuseumAccession no: 1973-09-15-20 State: 3/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | Photo © Trustees of the British Museum |
| Provenance: | Acquired from Whistler by W. C. Alexander; passed by family descent to his daughter, Rachel Alexander; sold by her executors with 19 other etchings for a total of £3165.0.0 to the British Museum, London, 1973 (Report of Gere, Keeper of the Print Room, 17 17 August 1973, Trustees Reports). |
| Additional acq. no: | PRN: PPA50233 |
| Paper size: | 218 x 169 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 126 x 102 mm |
| Note on size: | paper with very rough edges except uneven at right |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white considerably |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove? |
| Note on the paper: | yellowed to cream within the mount |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | n/a |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | very light tone |
| Note on foul biting: | a few dots plus dots and dashes at bottom right corner |
| Print note: | some burr still on ships - good impression marred by condition |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler / 1861.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | see signature |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | butterfly of 1873/1874, in pencil below image |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | 'The little Pool.' below image |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | not on recto |
| Dealers' stock nos: | not on recto |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '1,g.' at bottom right |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0730207 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.