Portrait of Whistler |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.208) | |
| Number: | 5 | |
| Date: | 1857 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 118 x 80 mm | |
| Signed: | 'J. W.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.7; M.9; T.-; W.1 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
TECHNIQUE
It was printed in dark brown ink with surface tone, and the portrait looks warm in colour. It is an exercise in shading, with short curving cross-hatching on the face, and vigorous, untidy zigzag cross hatching on the figure and background, softened by colour.
PRINTING
Only three impressions of the Portrait of Whistler have been located (
, , .) One was printed in dark brown ink on a coarse buff wove card () and looks warm in colour; and the other two in black, one on ivory 'antique' laid (pre-1800) paper (), and the third, which is a greatly trimmed down fragment, on ivory 'modern' laid paper ().
, , .) One was printed in dark brown ink on a coarse buff wove card () and looks warm in colour; and the other two in black, one on ivory 'antique' laid (pre-1800) paper (), and the third, which is a greatly trimmed down fragment, on ivory 'modern' laid paper ().