39The Music RoomLibrary of CongressAccession no: FP-XIX-W576, no. 33 State: 3/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Hubbard Collection |
| Image credit: | Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division |
| Provenance: | F. Keppel & Co., New York. Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1812-1897), lawyer, Washington, DC, gift to the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Hubbard Collection, 1898. |
| Paper size: | 197 x 256 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 144 x 213 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet was removed from a book, with top, left and right sheet edges dyed blue. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light tone, wiped clean on the central area. |
| Note on foul biting: | Extensive, mostly along the bottom. |
| Print note: | Drypoint shading on Deborah's skirt, the seat of Haden's chair and the back of Traer's book prints very clearly; without the heavy retroussage and plate tone found on many impressions (especially the late ones?) |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | no |
| 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: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'HUBBARD COLLECTION /LC' (G.G. Hubbard, Lugt 1267a) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 21863' at lower left on verso (uncertain if the second numeral is a 1) |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Whistler, The music-room. Second state. (Portraits of Seymour Haden, Mrs Haden (who is Whistler's sister.) and a Mr Freer." across lower edge on the recto; '308' at lower left on the verso; 'l / upside-down u' at lower centre on the verso; 'Hx vx' (the vx underlined and superscript) at lower right on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K0330222 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.