164Pickle Herring WharfFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.173 State: 6/8 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 218 x 342 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 150 x 227 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | beehive DEDB |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | With light tone ar right and on the water |
| Note on foul biting: | Considerable foul biting on the sky and on the water at lower left and lower right; the centre of the water appears to have been cleaned |
| Print note: |
| 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: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '137 -- Very early state -- Before any shading on boats in foreground -- T Way.' partly erased on 2 January 1924; '2nd state.' written by C.L. Freer in margin, erased 25 March 1924 (according to FGA folder sheet); '5 = X 21' in unidentified writing on recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1670502 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.