190The BeggarsFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.391 State: 1/17 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 314 x 216 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 306 x 211 mm |
| Note on size: | Trimmed just outside platemark |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Asian laid |
| Note on the paper: | fibrous japan, chain lines but no laid lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light overall tone |
| Note on foul biting: | a few marks, including a patch at lower centre near the plate edge |
| Print note: | a good impression with some burr or retroussage; soft, rather unusual effect on the ground, like wheel ruts; the faces of woman and child are very sweet; the cloaked figure in the distance is a mysterious, hunched shape; there are slight burnishing marks up the pillars to left and right; the only drypoint used appears to be a few lines on wall at lower right, thus the ink effect is a result of retroussage or over inking, not drypoint burr |
| 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: | 'SH' in graphite pencil at lower right on the verso (F.S. Haden, see Lugt 1227); 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'The Beggars - undescribed plate - probably a first idea - Early proof' at bottom on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1940204 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.