93WearyFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.329 State: 3/6 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 272 x 209 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 195 x 132 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Japan laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'Japan tissue', even distribution, much debris, ganpi, 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 plate tone over areas of darkest shading and near left, right and bottom plate marks |
| Note on foul biting: | small dark gouge at lower right (not from acid) with two faint corrosion marks and series of l-r diagonal scratches above it |
| Print note: | rich, heavily inked, burry impression |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | |
| 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 notes previously existing inscriptions 'S.H.' and in C.L. Freer's hand, 'Weary. Proof before name and date' in graphite on print's margin. They were erased 1924.03.12. |
| 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: | K0920104 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.