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Longshore men

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.276
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, (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:243 x 329 mm  
Plate mark size:152 x 224 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):Japan laid  
Note on the paper:Eastern paper: kozo; much debris - even distribution, vertical chain lines  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:warm black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:faint traces of tone at plate corners  
Note on foul biting:mostly near upper left and lower left and right plate corners.  
Print note:note how partially scraped out horizontal lines on front left figure's sleeve resemble drypoint--and the fact that scraping-out implies that there was at least one proof before it was done.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'1859.'  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:M. Smith records previously existing inscription 'S.H." in graphite on print's margin. It was erased 1925.6.16.  
Collector's mark:'S. Haden' in graphite pencil on verso (F.S. Haden, see Lugt 1227)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0450105  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.