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109

Draped Model

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.334
State: 11/11

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., Wunderlich 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:241 x 154 mm  
Plate mark size:208 x 133 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'antique' laid (pre 1800), even distribution, much debris, vertical chain lines  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:illegible countermark  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:with selective tone: stronger to the left and right of the figure and in the upper portion of the plate; with inky fingerprints along the right edge of the plate  
Note on foul biting:several flecks on lower drapery (pits/scratches rather than actual 'foul biting')  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:butterfly  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
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:InscrCollMk 'S.H.' ('Erased March 12th, 1924.', note on margin)  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W 87 - 2nd State' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1000602  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.