218The PiazzettaFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1902.133 State: 4/9 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Frederick Keppel & Co., by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1902; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 326 x 205 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 254 x 180 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: | partial Foolscap |
| Medium: | etching (and drypoint) |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Very pale tone, slightly darker at the bottom of the image |
| Note on foul biting: | foul biting near the plate corners, with traces of acid droplets and other plate surface disturbances near the lower right corner; there are indications of burnishing at lower right (a lighter patch in the plate tone); scratches at the top of the plate remain visible. |
| Print note: | The only possible drypoint appears to be on the archway under the clock; note, however, that in Kennedy's second state, there are two small patches of right-left diagonal shading on the left side of the column, above the butterfly signature--they are not present in the this impression of 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: | butterfly 'imp' in the lower right margin |
| 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: | large shaded butterfly; the shading is uniform, not a series of parallel lines |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Piazetta' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer; 'very early trial proof / before the plate was cleaned in the foreground. / and along the right edge of the plate.' , possibly by Harold Wright; 's / ui' to left of ' Z' at lower centre on the verso; '£EH.O (with vertical line through it)' at lower right on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1890305 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.