169Maud, StandingFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1904.85 State: 2/16 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), London; bought from Obach & Co., (receipt 23 July 1904), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1904; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 316 x 194 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 226 x 150 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid, 'antique' |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid paper, removed from a book. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | 'FD' (?) countermark |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | the 'tippet,' the back of the bodice and parts of the outlines of the front and back of the dress are drawn in pen or brush and dark brown wash |
| Print tone: | Some plate tone near the plate edges and to the right and below the figure; with an inky plate mark. |
| Note on foul biting: | Acid droplets at the upper left. |
| Print note: | This is presumably the impression illustrated by Kennedy for the second state. |
| 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: | 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: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Eledefcryus fam grammatice memenat Gelling 13 cap 14 ...Elysnice foror fuit Gimom duce in ...cfg ukor. Postea nupta fuit Gallice vid sep Binon-5 ' old Latin and Dutch [?] inscriptions, unclear, in brown ink in two hands on verso; 'No 28' in graphite pencil in the centre verso; 'Maude - trial proof - before the monogram' (originally in margin, with purchase notes, erased 14 March 1904, according to FGA folder sheet); 'W 99 Intermediate trial proof before 1st impression June /04' written by C.L.Freer, erased, recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1140202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.