205Murano - Glass FurnaceFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1906.239 State: 3/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Sir John Day (1826- 1908), London. Bought from Obach & Co., (receipt, 22 September 1906), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1906; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | |
| Plate mark size: | 159 x 233 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet appears to have been removed from a book, with brown discolouration along the top sheet edge |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | with overall tone, the windows and furnace wiped cleaner |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | This is the impression reproduced by Kennedy for state III; it appears to be pure drypoint |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | no |
| 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 37-45 mm from left, height 3 mm; butterfly of 1889/1890 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'JCD' blindstamp (Sir John Day, Lugt 526); |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Obach + Co Oct/06 W187 Murano Glass Furnace - Trial before heavy lines in upper right corner.' across the bottom on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2170302 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.