4The Dutchman Holding A GlassFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.210 State: 2/2 |  |
| 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; 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: | 88 x 60 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 82 x 56 mm |
| Note on size: | with small margins |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | light blue |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' (post 1800) laid; little debris - even distribution, vertical chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | partial; undetermined |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | printed with light plate tone at the lower right and at the upper right corner |
| Note on foul biting: | minor scattered |
| Print note: | Plate tone used to "shade" the bench at lower right |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'J. W.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
| 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 existence of a note by Seymour Haden on original mount (now lost), "1857, 1858 or 1859." |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W3' by C. L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0040202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.