486BohemiansFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.94 State: 3/3 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Robert Dunthorne, London (receipts, 10 and 31 August 1903), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 87 x 53 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 85 x 53 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: | illegible, possibly the top of Crowned GB? |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | traces of tone along the plate edges |
| Note on foul biting: | vise mark at upper right; many scattered flecks on the lower half of the plate |
| Print note: | The drypoint around the feet is also found on Kennedy's illustration, implying an earlier state before the drypoint. |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 10-20 mm from left, height 2 mm |
| 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: | 'Supp 360 / G396 / "Hole in the Wall - Ajaccio" ' at bottom on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K4420103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.