3Au SixièmeFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.410 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Probably acquired from Whistler by Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; listed by E. G. Kennedy as in the Haden Collection , 1910, bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, through T. W. Dewing, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 139 x 99 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 107 x 76 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | off-white on ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | China laid down on wove |
| Note on the paper: | slightly orangey pink tissue; chine colle; sheet of china paper is smaller than platemark so inscription "Au Sixieme" is printed on support sheet beneath it; little debris - even distribution |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | very light residual tone |
| Note on foul biting: | small patches along the top of the plate and near the corners |
| Print note: | Copper plate appears to have been damaged at one corner as l.l. plate mark on etching is irregular and not rounded; Kennedy master |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler. inv.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | 'Au Sixieme.' |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | |
| 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: | M. Smith records the previous existence of the notation "S.H." in graphite on etching's margin. It was erased 1924.03.29. |
| Collector's mark: | 'S. Haden' in graphite pencil on verso; 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'G' with right-left underscore on verso; 'probably the first of Whistlers Etchgs/ - I never saw but this one. S.H.' written by F.S. Haden on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0030102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.