66Arthur HadenFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1892.1 State: 2/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891); Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 98), bought by Deprez & Gutekunst, London, £10.15.0; bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, May 1892; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 300 x 216 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 227 x 152 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: hosho; little debris - even distribution, horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | printed with some light plate tone on lower half of plate |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | A very good impression, with a luminous, shimmering quality in the lines and shading. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | '1869.' |
| 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: | 'JHH' blindstamp (J. H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921) and 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | tiny blue dot at tip of lower right sheet corner. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0610204 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.