311Return to TilburyFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1888.6 State: 3/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & co., (receipts, 1 May 1888 and 27 May 1889), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1888; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 132 x 96 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 132 x 96 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 finial and top of crest |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Selectively wiped, heavier over the bottom quarter of the image; with distinct vertical and curving horizontal wiping marks; a large patch of picking a lower right |
| Note on foul biting: | Many scattered flecks but fewer than are visible on Kennedy's reproduction |
| Print note: | New state; foul biting prints more faintly (or has been reduced) compared to Kennedy's reproduction, and his illustration does not show the faint drypoint shading |
| 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 20-30 mm from left, height 3 mm |
| 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: | 'W244' at lower centre on the verso and 'undescribed' (erased) at lower left on the verso by C.L. Freer; Mr Whistlers [sic] / No on mount / 59' (the o in No superscript and underlined) at lower right on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K3270103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.