69Riault (The Wood Engraver)Freer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.306 State: 2/4 | ![]() |
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), through T. W. Dewing, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
Paper size: | 141 x 110 mm |
Plate mark size: | 140 x 109 mm |
Note on size: | trimmed at top and well within plate mark on sides and bottom |
Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
Colour of the paper: | off-white |
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1800); little debris - even distribution, horizontal chain lines |
Tab?: | no |
Watermarks: | partial: [HAL]LINES |
Medium: | drypoint |
Ink colour: | black |
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
Print tone: | printed with very light plate tone |
Note on foul biting: | three flecks from abrasion, not acid |
Print note: | Very intense impression with burr |
Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler. 1860.' ('6' reversed) |
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: | Plate signature and inscription not visible as image is trimmed; M. Smith notes previously existing inscription '2nd state - fragment of plate' in graphite on print's mount (erased 1924.1.10) and 'The engraver - portr of M. Riault, fragment of proof' on old mat (now lost). |
Collector's mark: | no |
Dealers' stock nos: | no |
Misc inscriptions by others: | tiny blue dot near lower left corner on verso. |
Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
ID: | K0650202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.