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127

Sleeping Girl

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession no: 1949.5.541
State: 1/4

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  
Provenance:Howard Mansfield (1849-1938), New York; probably sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris G. Whittemore (d. ca 1937), Naugatuck, CT, 1919. Given by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia, to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949.  
Additional acq. no:B-15848  

 

Paper size:225 x 350 mm  
Plate mark size:136 x 214 mm  
Note on size:.  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:beehive / DEDB with elaborate foliage  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:traces of residual tone  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:  

 

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:the illegible word may be a name - the sitter?  
Collector's mark:Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342); Harris G. Whittemore (Lugt 1384a)  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'[illegible] Sleeping' at lower right on the recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1250102  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.