156Steamboats off the TowerFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.352 State: 4/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., (receipt, 9 November 1898) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 227 x 352 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 154 x 226 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | 'De Erven Dk Blauw' |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | a band of tone over the ships and buildings in the middle of the plate, except for a very small clean-wiped patch on the horizon to the left of the buildings; with smaller patches of tone at the plate corners |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered tiny pits and flecks |
| Print note: | The ink is warm black in colour. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | butterfly 'x' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | 'x' to the right of the butterfly signature |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'S. Haden' in graphite pencil at lower left on verso (F.S. Haden, see Lugt 1227) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W.114 / From Custom House' at lower centre on the verso; 'W114' at lower right on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1490303 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.