162Whistler with the White LockFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.37 State: 1 (re-issued)/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 195 x 164 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 117 x 80 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | light green |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | hunting horn in shield, Partial |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | With light tone near the sides of the plate. |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | Is this pure etching, or are the fine lines on the lapels drypoint? More importantly, was the cancelled plate 'restored' and reprinted? The face is quite worn, and there are traces of a scratch (cancellation line?) over the left eye and a right-left diagonal crossing it through the eyebrow. |
| 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: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W142' at lower left on the recto by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1720102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.