UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Home > The Catalogue > Impression

Return to previous page

79

The Little Pool

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession no: 1898.318
State: 4/9

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, (Wunderlich 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:106 x 130 mm  
Plate mark size:103 x 125 mm  
Note on size:narrow margins  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:even distribution, much debris  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:traces of plate tone near plate corners  
Note on foul biting:considerable foul biting on figures and bulkhead at left, area around lettering and on barges in foreground; large vise mark at lower left corner  
Print note:it appears that some foul biting has been burnished out, but other areas have been left 'strategically'--for example, as shading on clothing of figures and on certain parts of foreground barges  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'1861' and 'The Works of James Whistler: Etchings and Dry Points, are on View at E. Thomas' / Publisher.  
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 notes previous existence of inscription "S.H. 1" in graphite on old mount (now lost). It was erased 1924.02.12.  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:no  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0740503  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.