150The Beach, HastingsFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.253 State: 2/2 | ![]() |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), London; bought from Obach & Co., (receipts 9 December 1903 and 6 January 1904), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 350 x 224 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 157 x 232 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1800), even distribution, much debris, horizontal chain lines; Sides edges are deckle. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | beehive |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | With plate tone at the upper left, at lower right and along the right plate edge. |
| Note on foul biting: | Specks at lower right. |
| Print note: | See the note about Kennedy's state description; this is a second state impression, but Kennedy's description may be inaccurate. |
| 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: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W101 'The Beach'' at the lower left on the recto by C. L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1160202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.
