62J. Becquet, SculptorFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1892.13 State: 1/6 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Sir William Drake. Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London. Bought from Frederick Keppel & Co., New York, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, April 1892; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 183 x 149 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 167 x 136 mm |
| Other size: | 170 x 137 mm |
| Note on size: | as noted by Kennedy 'printed with a frisket,' thus showing only part of the image and no evidence of platemark of 255 x 193 plate |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | pale green |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid (pre 1800); much debris - even distribution, horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | partial, a rectangle 5.7cm long and 1cm wide. Inside the rectangle are three parallel lines, the centre one is heavier than the flanking ones |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | printed with plate tone on backgground and along lower edge of plate |
| Note on foul biting: | While there is no visible foul biting, there are numerous remnants of lines from earlier design--along right edge of printed subject, across right arm and cello and at lower left plate edge |
| Print note: | A good, bright impression |
| 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: | M.Smith records previously existing inscriptions 'Trial impression of head only: fine and very early' in graphite on recto and and 'S.H.' in graphite on verso in Haden's hand. They were erased 1924.3.31 but the former is still mostly legible. |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W48' and 'W48 / The writing above is Seymour Haden's. From the Haden and Sir William Drake collections' on recto by C.L. Freer; 'Becquet' and [illegible] on recto; 'Eoxv' (the 'xv' underscored) on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0520102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.