42Nursemaid and ChildFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.262 State: 1/2 |  |
| 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, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 110 x 143 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 97 x 132 mm |
| Note on size: | with narrow margins |
| 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: | Post Horn |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black (brown ms) |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | |
| Print tone: | Faint tone at lower right and along plate edges. |
| Note on foul biting: | Scattered flecks with heavier concentration near upper right corner and on lower portion of plate. |
| Print note: | Heavily inked lines on nursemaid's hair and cape and series of diagonals near lower right plate corner have appearance of drypoint but are probably etched?; is fine diagonal shading on centre of hill in background drypoint?; remnants of scraped-out figure (?) visible at lower left. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler' |
| 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 previously existing inscription "S.H." in graphite on etching's margin. It was erased 1924.3.29. |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W34- 1st State' on verso by C. L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0370103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.