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349

Fish Women, Ostend

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1903.152
State: 2/2

Collection credit:Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Image credit:Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution  
Provenance:Bought from Obach & Co., London (receipt, 11 July 1903), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:93 x 131 mm  
Plate mark size:93 x 131 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:yes  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:yes  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:dark brown  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Pale traces of tone at the left and right sides  
Note on foul biting:Scattered flecks  
Print note:New state; the only drypoint is to the right of the central standing figure.  

 

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:'Fish women / Ostend -' at lower right on the verso  
Tab signed/inscribed:butterfly 'imp.'  
Note on the tab:tab 21-322 mm from left, height 3 mm  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'undescribed' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K3490102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.