33Bibi LalouetteFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.255 State: 2/2 |  |
| 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: | 218 x 160 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 227 x 154 mm |
| Note on size: | with 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 - even 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: | clean-wiped |
| Note on foul biting: | larger patch of foul biting in blank area to left of figure still prints faintly and patch at lower is present (both visible in state 1); new dots (acid spatters?), mostly on lower 2/3 of plate. |
| Print note: | A good, bright impression. Facial features of heads sketched below figure are mostly burnished out but general shapes and hair remain visible; new drypoint work has fair amount of burr; the new dark spots of foul biting do not appear in Kennedy's illustration of state 2 |
| 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: | M.Smith records previously existing inscription 'S.H.' in graphite on print's margin. It was erased 1924.3.31. |
| 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: | K0510205 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.