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159

Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 2

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1903.268
State: 2/6

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), London; bought from Obach & Co., (receipts, 9 December 1903 and 6 January 1904) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:350 x 224 mm  
Plate mark size:226 x 152 mm  
Note on size:.  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:beehive DEDB  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Selectively wiped, with heavy tone over and around the figure, the face clean-wiped and the right plate edge wiped fairly clean; with an inky plate mark at left  
Note on foul biting:Pale traces of acid drops at lower left  
Print note:Some lines of the hat, face, collar, torso, hand, arm and costume appear to be etched, but--except for the face--they are heavily retouched with drypoint; this is presumably the impression of the first state reproduced in Kennedy  

 

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:'II plate I state' (the 'I's are roman numerals).  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1710102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.