1Sketches on the Coast Survey PlateFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.411 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Probably acquired from Whistler by Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, through T. W. Dewing, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 140 x 245 mm |
| Plate mark size: | n/a mm |
| Note on size: | trimmed within plate mark; uneven cut at bottom; copper plate measures 149 x 265 including bevel |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Japan laid |
| Note on the paper: | Eastern paper: gasenshi; with a lot of debris - even distribution |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | no |
| Note on foul biting: | some on the upper portion of plate; most on the lower portion of plate |
| Print note: | This appears to differ in significant ways from the other Freer impressions (1897.017 and 1913.198), which have less pronounced foul biting; perhaps an impression before the 25-30 impressions printed by XXX (see letter to CLF dated XXX). Freer owns the copper plate, which has been compared to this impression; many defects apparent in this impression have been cleaned from the plate. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'JW' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | |
| Notes on inscriptions: | M. Smith records the previous existence of the inscription "S.H." in graphite in etchings' marin. It was erased 1924.03.29 |
| Collector's mark: | ''F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '5' in red pencil at lower right on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0010107 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.