73Portrait of a manFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1893.42 State: C/2 | ![]() |
Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
Provenance: | Published in a cancelled set of etchings by the Fine Art Society, London, 1879. Purchased from Knoedler & Co., by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1893; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
Paper size: | 322 x 245 mm |
Plate mark size: | 226 x 152 mm |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
Colour of the paper: | cream |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1800), even distribution, little debris, horizontal chain lines |
Tab?: | no |
Watermarks: | partial: Fleur de lys in a shield with WGL (in cursive) below |
Medium: | drypoint |
Ink colour: | black |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | |
Print tone: | |
Note on foul biting: | |
Print note: |
Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler. 1860.' |
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | see signature |
Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
Whistler's signature on paper: | |
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | |
Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
Note on the tab: |
Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
Notes on inscriptions: | |
Collector's mark: | no |
Dealers' stock nos: | no |
Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Have' written by Freer on recto; 'W 58 93.42 W58 K63 Gr59 M63 Mr Mann 1860 Dry-point' in unidentified writing on recto; unidentified writing, erased, under '93.42'. |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
ID: | K0630301 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.