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Riault (The Wood Engraver)

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.306
State: 2/4

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), through T. W. Dewing, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919.  

 

Paper size:141 x 110 mm  
Plate mark size:140 x 109 mm  
Note on size:trimmed at top and well within plate mark on sides and bottom  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:'modern' laid (post 1800); little debris - even distribution, horizontal chain lines  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:partial: [HAL]LINES  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:printed with very light plate tone  
Note on foul biting:three flecks from abrasion, not acid  
Print note:Very intense impression with burr  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler. 1860.' ('6' reversed)  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:see signature  
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:Plate signature and inscription not visible as image is trimmed; M. Smith notes previously existing inscription '2nd state - fragment of plate' in graphite on print's mount (erased 1924.1.10) and 'The engraver - portr of M. Riault, fragment of proof' on old mat (now lost).  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:tiny blue dot near lower left corner on verso.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0650202  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.