66Arthur HadenLibrary of CongressAccession no: FP-XIX-W576, no. 61 State: 1/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Pennell Fund, 1949 |
| Image credit: | Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division |
| Provenance: | Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (1845?-1924), Glasgow. H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 42190). Listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago, 1910. Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), New York. Harris G. Whittemore, Naugatuck, CT. Bought with the Pennell Fund by the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. |
| Additional acq. no: | 8-96.816.104 |
| Paper size: | 367 x 258 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 226 x 152 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | japanese laid |
| Note on the paper: | many fibrous inclusions |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | irregular tone |
| Note on foul biting: | at bottom right edge, and dashes; the face at the bottom is visible |
| Print note: | This is the impression of the first state illustrated by Kennedy, where it is masked at the bottom to give the appearance of a tab; Kennedy's illustration is quite brown, but the ink is actually black; the Benedict stamp, which shows through from the back at the lower left corner is not visible in Kennedy's illustration |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp' on recto under platemark |
| 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: | pencil butterfly of 1890s |
| Collector's mark: | 'B.M.' (B. B. MacGeorge, Lugt 394); 'HHB' stamp (H. H. Benedict, Lugt 2936); 'H.W.' stamp (H. G. Whittemore, Lugt 1384a) all on verso. 'T.J.C' in script at lower centre on the verso (Thomas Jefferson Coolidge?) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 42190' on recto |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'K.61' at lower centre on the recto; 'x -c' |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K0610103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.