33Bibi LalouetteFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.254 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: | 231 x 158 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 226 x 153 mm |
| Note on size: | .with very narrow margins |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Japan laid |
| Note on the paper: | Eastern paper: kozo; much debris - uneven distribution, horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | traces of tone on lower fifth of plate |
| Note on foul biting: | traces of two patches of foul biting in blank area to left of figure and an area near lower edge of plate to left of centre |
| Print note: | The face upside down at the bottom of the sheet is clearly visible, and rather pretty. The impression is very fine, though not of course complete; only drypoint in vertical and slight diagonal lines at left and right plate edges? |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | '1859.' |
| 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: | Impressions of two frontal face views appear upside-down in lower portion of plate. M. Smith wrote, verso: 98.254 K.51 |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0510102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.