120The Velvet Dress (Mrs Leyland)Walker Art Gallery, LiverpoolAccession no: WAG 9772 State: 2/7 |
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| Image credit: | |
| Provenance: | Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), New York. 'Albert Roule […]t Galleries, printsellers / 70 Fine Arts Building 410 S. Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, B4154' (on mount, label.) Estate of Mrs Diego Suarez; sold at Christie's, New York, 2 May 1980, lot 450, $8250. Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd; bought by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, May 1980, £3,818.11 (V&A purchase grant fund, £1,896). |
| Paper size: | 309 x 209 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 233 x 158 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | japanese |
| Note on the paper: | light weight with a few irregular brown fibres and deckle edges on the upper and right sides; it is discoloured under the mount to cream. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | There is a medium print tone that is darker at the lower right corner, in the shadows of the curtain and in selective parts of the dress and head. |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | There is beautiful rich burr around the head. There is a vertical emphasis to the wipe marks. |
| 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: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'HHB' black ink stamp on verso, at lower left corner (H.H. Benedict); 'WG [within box] ROS. H. H. B. OCT 10' at lower left edge, in pencil |
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| Misc inscriptions by others: | square with cross inside it on recto, at lower right corner; at lower right, 'f-.' (dot below dash); at lower left,'W.91'; on verso '36' (encircled); '-a'; 'LCV' (? mirror image, vertical). |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K1050203 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.