106FuscoFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.335 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 238 x 160 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 207 x 131 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid, 'antique' |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid paper, removed from a book. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | traces of plate tone near the plate corners |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | The drypoint lines on this impression print more strongly and clearly than they do on the Kennedy 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: | 'Whistler' (underlined) |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | '5.' probably by Whistler |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | 'S.H. Erased March 12th, 1924.' according to FGA folder sheet; |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '...desuruts = 4 2 Sam V:5-50', two lines of old inscription in brown ink on the verso (cut across when the paper was trimmed; the line at the top proper right is half cut off and unclear). 'W 90 Fosco.' written by C.L. Freer on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0990104 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.