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The Pool

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.273
State: 4/6

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:143 x 220 mm  
Plate mark size:139 x 215 mm  
Note on size:With narrow margins  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):Japan laid  
Note on the paper:Eastern paper: kozo; much debris - even distribution, vertical chain lines.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:Arms of London  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:  
Print tone:no  
Note on foul biting:mostly around figure in boat but scattered flecks in water to his right and in middleground.  
Print note:Mostly around figure in boat but scattered flecks in water to his right and in middleground.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'1859.' and, on signboards, 'COOPER.', 'St (the 'S' reversed) GEORGE'S WF (the 'F' underscored)', 'NEW CRANE. / TO LET'; on boat at lower right, 'JANE No 6'  
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:Freer wrote in pencil, verso: W 41. Veritype inscription in pencil, verso: 98.273. M. Smith wrote in pencil, verso: K.43  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W41' on verso by C.L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0430303  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.