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Mrs Leyland, Sr.

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.402
State: 1/3

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., (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:351 x 223 mm  
Plate mark size:226 x 150 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, much debris, vertical chain lines  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:'DEDB' in beehive in floral shield  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:faint traces of tone the left and right of the figure  
Note on foul biting:scattered flecks  
Print note:Print with dark burr  

 

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:  
Collector's mark:'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W227 FR Leyland's mother' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer; blue dot at lower left on the verso.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1030102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.