193The DoorwayFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.181 State: 5/20 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson, London (ca 1829 - d. 1891). 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: | 372 x 276 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 290 x 202 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | buff |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | heavy wove |
| Note on the paper: | The paper colour is ivory discoloured to buff; it is like light card in weight |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching, drypoint and roulette |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | With some plate tone, heavier along the top plate edge, on the right side of the image and on the water. |
| Note on foul biting: | Granular foul biting over the top of the arched windows; there are curved wiping scratches on the plate near the upper and lower right corners; the vice mark and acid droplets, visible in the second state, have been removed. |
| Print note: | This appears to be between Kennedy's second and third states; it was formerly catalogued as the third state. |
| 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: | stylized device at centre on the verso (this may be a version of Walter Dowdeswell's mark; see Lugt 799); 'JHH' blind stamp (J.H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921); 'F' blindstamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '3' at lower right on the recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1880303 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.