216The Little LagoonFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1894.41 State: 4/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Frederick Keppel & Co., (Keppel receipt, 21 August 1894), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1894; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 230 x 152 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 227 x 152 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | partial Hunting Horn in shield, Van der Ley (Chicago watermark 186) |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Light graduated tone, carefully wiped, becoming darker at the bottom. |
| Note on foul biting: | A small patch of foul biting to the left of the plate butterfly signature. |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 40-50 mm from left, height 3 mm, 1890s butterfly |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W152' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer; 'EH x (or c next to reversed c)v net' the 'xv net' superscript and 'net' is underlined. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1860206 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.