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The Music Room

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Accession no: L. 1979/69
State: 2/4

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Bought from Galerie Pictura, Middelburg, by the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 4 December 1979, for 1400 francs.  

 

Paper size:185 x 310 mm  
Plate mark size:145 x 216 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:dark ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:dirty surface  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light tone, clean wiped on the table, lap and hands of Deborah and Haden.  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:Quite richly printed at right, very delicate work at top left. The top left corner appears to have been filled in, almost like the marks of finger prints; uncleaned edges at bottom and right; it must have been bitten very unevenly at the edge, and possibly re-bitten to get the top left corner redone.  

 

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:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'1' or '9' in old scipt at top right corner in pen on recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0330227  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.