153Sketches of a Girl and a WomanFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.255 State: 1/1 |  |
| 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: | 320 x 195 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 178 x 133 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet was removed from a book; with an old [Dutch?] inscription in brown ink on the verso |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | Arms of Amsterdam |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | pen or brush and black and grey wash shading behind the girl's head and back, on the back of her head and back, around her eye, on the ruffles of her dress; a series of curved lines below her |
| Print tone: | Light, irregular plate tone over most of the plate |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | There is evidence of burnishing at the upper right--possibly where a book was removed from the beginning of another "reading in bed" subject? |
| 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: | butterfly; 'Whistler' (underlined) |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | '1st Proof - touched / in Water Color -' |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | Note that the large shaded butterfly signature in the image is in graphite and is not incised into the plate |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | ' ...6 Dat is ik zal im zekerlyk stellen etc. Vid Glassig pag 520', old writing in Dutch in brown ink on verso; 'Whistler 1st Proof - touched in Water Color -' in unidentified writing on recto; 'W 108 Two Sketches' written by C.L. Freer, erased, on recto; blue dot at the lower left corner on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1220102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.