1Sketches on the Coast Survey PlateFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1897.17 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, (receipt, 14 April 1897), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, receipt dated 19 April 1897; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 209 x 264 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 145 x 259 mm |
| Note on size: | sheet extends only 3-4 mm beyond plate mark at right and ends at or just within plate mark at left; copper plate measures 149 x 265 including bevel |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1800); with little debris - even distribution; horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | 'MBM' |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light regular plate tone over the image area |
| Note on foul biting: | traces near the sketches at the top of the plate and at the lower right |
| Print note: | See Freer 1898.411 with more pronounced foul biting and plate scratches; light plate tone within plate mark with sharp edges carefully manipulated; faint horizontal scratches and burnishing marks visible in blank area below cliffs at centre right; Freer owns the copper plate, which has been compared to this impression; perhaps one of about 25-30 impressions printed posthumously (see letter from him to CLF dated XXX). See folder note transcribed for 1913.198. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'JW' |
| 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): | |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt), blindstamp on recto and in red on verso |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '97.17' Veritype inscription on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0010106 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.