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Little Arthur

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.228
State: 3/4

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, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898 (receipt, 9 November 1898); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:227 x 168 mm  
Plate mark size:83 x 56 mm  
Other size:.13 thickness mm  
Note on size:plate cut down after third state  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'antique' laid (pre 1800); little debris - even distribution, horizontal chain lines  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:faint traces of plate tone near the plate edges  
Note on foul biting:on the foreground at the right  
Print note:Warm black, almost brown effect  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:"Whistler"  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'Imp. Delatre. Rue. St Jacques. 171.'  
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 inscription "S.H." in pencil on etching's margin. It was erased 1924.03.29.  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W13- 1st [underscored] State' on verso by C. L. Freer.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0090303  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.