113Tillie: A ModelFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1904.57 State: 5/5 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), London, 1910; bought from Obach & Co. (receipts 23 April and 24 May 1904), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1904; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 322 x 203 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 234 x 159 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet was removed from a book; with old [Latin?] inscription in brown ink on the verso |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | B/TH in elaborated circle (Chicago watermark 62) |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | shadows around the figure added with brush and wash |
| Print tone: | some light plate tone along the right side of the plate |
| Note on foul biting: | A large spot of foul biting with droplets above it at the lower left beveled plate edge; another spot near the lower right beveled edge. |
| Print note: | The brush and wash additions are in black and grey wash; this is the impression of the fourth state illustrated in Kennedy. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
| 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: | 'From Obach + Co £84' at the lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer; 'Aud papier' at the lower left on the verso; blue dot at lower left corner on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1170402 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.