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Annie

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1888.38
State: 6/7

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, (receipt, 5 June 1888), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:23 x 163 mm  
Plate mark size:117 x 78 mm  
Note on size:page removed from a book  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'antique' laid; much debris - uneven distribution, vertical chain lines  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:printed with some light plate tone, most notably near the plate corners and the edges and beneath the figure  
Note on foul biting:to left and right of the figure's head and torso; on the shaded area to the left of the skirt and around the plate signature and the printer's address; larger more distinct flecks to the left, right and below the figure  
Print note:Larger spots of foul biting appear in K's fifth state and appear to be result of corrosion?  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler' (crossed 'l' instead of 't')  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'Annie'  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171.'  
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 in the recto of the etching and also in its margin. They were erased 1924.03.29.  
Collector's mark:'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'W15' lower centre on recto; 'W15 - 1st [underscored] State' on verso by C. L. Freer; 'Annie' lower center on verso; 'I' lower right on verso.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0100505  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.