234Old WomenFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.8 State: 2/3 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Obach & Co. (receipts, 10 January and 23 February 1905), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 131 x 205 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 126 x 202 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | heavy weight paper |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | partial ER (VAN GELDER?) |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | Black and dark grey wash on the doorways, window to the left of them and the leftmost figure |
| Print tone: | traces of tone near the plate edges |
| Note on 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: | |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '21' at upper left on the verso; '3-' at lower right on the verso; 'W195. Old Women. Obach + Co. Jany./05' at lower left on the verso by C.L. Freer |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2240102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.