8Little ArthurFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.227 State: 1/4 |  |
| 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 (receipts, 7 amd 9 November 1898) ; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 103 x 75 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 82 x 56 mm |
| Note on size: | small margins; plate cut down after third state |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
| Note on the paper: | 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: | no |
| Note on foul biting: | very faint foul biting in the foreground at the right |
| Print note: | clear, lightly inked print |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'JW' |
| 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: | ms FGA folder sheet: S.H. in pencil: "Trial" in red pencil on margin. Erased March 29th, 1924. Freer wrote in pencil, verso: W 13 Trial proof before the name. Unidentified and Illegible writing in pencil on top proper right edge, verso. Veritype inscription in pencil, verso: 98.227. M. Smith wrote in pencil, verso: K. 9; Martha Smith records the previous existence of inscriptions "S.H." in graphite and "Trial" in red pencil. Those notations were erased 1924.03.29. |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W13 Trial proof before the nam' on verso by C. noL. Freer; illegible graphite inscription at upper right on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0090102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.