99Amsterdam, from the TolhuisFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1888.31 State: 4/8 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, (Wunderlich receipt 25 October 1888), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, October 1888; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 202 x 333 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 132 x 209 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | old ledger paper with ink inscription on verso, 'antique' laid (pre 1800), even distribution, much debris, horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | 'LD' |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | printed with light plate tone, slightly heavier on water; tone disturbed over much of water, especially just above bottom plate mark, from center to right corner |
| Note on foul biting: | a few scattered flecks and faint marks from acid droplets at lower left |
| Print note: | only certain drypoint is series of broken lines that depict leftmost, curving rope (line?) extending from top of mast (stay?) to hull of second barge from front; short l-r diagonal and longer curved |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | '1863. / a [accent grave] Amsterdam - Tolhuis.- --' |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | butterfly and 'imp.' at lower left |
| 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: | Butterfly of 1880 or 1881; FGA folder sheet: In ink on back of sheet, a line of old Dutch writing. Freer wrote in pencil, verso: W 82 1st State. Freer's seal in red ink, verso. Unidentified writing in brown ink, verso: Cibul Theornodon Ord-2 M 299 [?]. M. Smith wrote in pencil, verso: F1888.31 K.91 |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | two erased inscriptions at lower left on recto |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W82 1st state' on verso by C.L. Freer; two tiny blue dots near lower left corner on verso. Inscription 'Cital Thermodon …m299' illegible inscition |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0910105 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.