10Seymour, StandingFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.405 State: 1/2 |  |
| 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, 1898 (receipt from Freer for Dewing, 7 November 1898); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 135 x 98 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 98 x 67 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | modern laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1800); little debris - even distribution, horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | Marechal |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | traces of plate tone near the plate edges with an inky plate mark |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered with a dark patch in the lower right corner |
| Print note: | Evidence of burnishing, particulaly at lower left of figure's head |
| 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: | 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: | M. Smith records the previous existence of the inscription "S.H." in graphite on etching's margin. It was erased 1924.03.29. |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) stamped twice on verso |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W362' on verso by C. L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0060102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.