5Portrait of WhistlerFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.209 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; H. Wunderlich & Co., New York; bought through T. W. Dewing by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898 (receipts, 7 and 9 November 1898); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 52 x 59 mm |
| Plate mark size: | not applicable mm |
| Note on size: | fragment; trimmed within platemark |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1800); little debris - even distribution, vertical chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light overall plate tone except for the face, which is clean-wiped |
| Note on foul biting: | faint and scattered near the top of the reduced image |
| Print note: | 'Fragment'-- this is a trimmed impression (paper), not an impression from a reduced plate, it is a very dark, heavily inked impression. |
| 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: | |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | M. Smith records the existence of a note by Seymour Haden on old mount, "Extremely rare -- fragment." |
| 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: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0070103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.