26La RétameuseFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1888.37 State: 2/2 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | F. Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London. Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., (receipt, 30 July 1888), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1888; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 328 x 257 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 109 x 89 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
| Note on the paper: | much debris - even distribution |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light, overall plate tone with inky plate edges |
| Note on foul biting: | minor, scattered but more pronounced near plate corners |
| Print note: | Slightly dirty effect of light overall plate tone, including in the top right corner. Without the burnishing marks above the wavy horizontals to left of figure visible in Freer 1898. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | 'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. [superscript 't'] Jacques. 171.' |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | no |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | 'No 5' on verso |
| 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 three inscriptions in graphite on recto: "1932" (circled); "a14239" and "RP"? |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 14239' recorded as originally on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W5.' and 'La Retameuse' on recto; 'No 5' and 'Old Woman Whistler' on verso; 'f/' (underscored) barely visible on verso; 'W5' on verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0140204 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.