39The Music RoomMuseum Boijmans van Beuningen, RotterdamAccession no: L. 1979/69 State: 2/4 |
Collection credit: | |
Image credit: | |
Provenance: | Bought from Galerie Pictura, Middelburg, by the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 4 December 1979, for 1400 francs. |
Paper size: | 185 x 310 mm |
Plate mark size: | 145 x 216 mm |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
Colour of the paper: | dark ivory |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
Note on the paper: | dirty surface |
Tab?: | no |
Watermarks: | no |
Medium: | etching |
Ink colour: | dark brown |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | light tone, clean wiped on the table, lap and hands of Deborah and Haden. |
Note on foul biting: | |
Print note: | Quite richly printed at right, very delicate work at top left. The top left corner appears to have been filled in, almost like the marks of finger prints; uncleaned edges at bottom and right; it must have been bitten very unevenly at the edge, and possibly re-bitten to get the top left corner redone. |
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: | 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: | no |
Dealers' stock nos: | no |
Misc inscriptions by others: | '1' or '9' in old scipt at top right corner in pen on recto |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
ID: | K0330227 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.