124The Guitar Player (M.W. Ridley)Colby College Museum of Art, MaineAccession no: 2013.459 State: 1/7 |  |
| Collection credit: | The Lunder Collection, Colby College Museum of Art |
| Image credit: | Photo © Colby College Museum of Art |
| Provenance: | Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow. Albert W. Scholle (d. 1910), New York. Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), Naugatuck, CT. William Sloane Kinney (1883 - 1952). Susan Schulman, New York; bought by Peter Lunder, 26 August 2002; given by Peter and Paula Lunder to Colby College, Waterville, ME, 2007. |
| Additional acq. no: | 032.2002 |
| Paper size: | 324 x 202 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 275 x 174 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | IV |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | clean wiped |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | fine impression with burr |
| 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: | no |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | pencil butterfly of 1879/1881 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'B.M.' stamp (B.B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394); pentagon stamp (A.B. Scholle, L. 2923a); 'HW' (Whittemore, L. 1384a) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'C.9.F.O' on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | red chalk '367' on recto; red chalk verso '£5.5.0' |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K1400102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.