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The Music Room

Library of Congress
Accession no: FP-XIX-W576, no. 33
State: 3/4

Collection credit:Hubbard Collection  
Image credit:Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division  
Provenance:F. Keppel & Co., New York. Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1812-1897), lawyer, Washington, DC, gift to the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Hubbard Collection, 1898.  

 

Paper size:197 x 256 mm  
Plate mark size:144 x 213 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:The sheet was removed from a book, with top, left and right sheet edges dyed blue.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light tone, wiped clean on the central area.  
Note on foul biting:Extensive, mostly along the bottom.  
Print note:Drypoint shading on Deborah's skirt, the seat of Haden's chair and the back of Traer's book prints very clearly; without the heavy retroussage and plate tone found on many impressions (especially the late ones?)  

 

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:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'HUBBARD COLLECTION /LC' (G.G. Hubbard, Lugt 1267a)  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 21863' at lower left on verso (uncertain if the second numeral is a 1)  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Whistler, The music-room. Second state. (Portraits of Seymour Haden, Mrs Haden (who is Whistler's sister.) and a Mr Freer." across lower edge on the recto; '308' at lower left on the verso; 'l / upside-down u' at lower centre on the verso; 'Hx vx' (the vx underlined and superscript) at lower right on the verso.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0330222  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.