5Portrait of WhistlerFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.208 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Probably acquired from Whistler by Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York (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: | 215 x 163 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 118 x 80 mm |
| Note on size: | . |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid (pre 1800); much debris - even distribution, horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | faint plate tone on the shaded area on the upper half of the plate |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered |
| Print note: | A good impression with soft shading; In addition to flecks of foul biting there is a patch of more regular dots in the blank space beneath Whistler's hand. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'J.W.' |
| 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: | M. Smith records the previous existence of the inscription "S.H." in graphite on etching's margin. It was erased 1924.03.29. |
| Collector's mark: | 'S.H' in graphite pencil on verso by Seymour Haden (see Lugt 1227 ); 'F' red stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) on verso |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '1' faintly in red pencil at lower right on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0070102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.