17The MiserFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1892.6 State: 1/7 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Philippe Burty (1830-1890), Paris; probably sold at auction, Sotheby, London, 1 May 1876 (lot 928), bought by Heywood, £1.1.0. Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891); sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 116/117), bought by Deprez. Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, (Wunderlich receipt May 1892), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, May 1892; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 157 x 205 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 118 x 159 mm |
| Note on size: | broad margin |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | tan |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Japan laid |
| Note on the paper: | tan discoloured to deep yellowish-tan; Eastern laid: kozo; much debris - even distribution; 16-18 mm betwn chain lines; M. Smith notes "wrapping paper, not art paper … contains a lot of rice staw." |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | printed with very light plate tone at upper left, in foreground and at right |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | Strong drypoint lines with burr; flecks and spots of 'foul biting' apparent on 1898.309 are not visible on this impression; partly the result of fibrous paper? It is most likely an earlier impression than 1898.309, because the acid/corrosion spots do print clearly in the impression of state II--1898.310 |
| 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: | 'BURTY' stamp on recto in red (Philippe Burty, Lugt 413); 'JHH' blindstamp (J. H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921); and 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 20904' on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W 65 Early proof- Before the signature' on verso by C.L. Freer; 'mount' on verso; tiny blue dot near lower left corner on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0690103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.