127Sleeping GirlFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1892.10 State: 2/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891), London; sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 156), bought by Frederick Keppel & Co., £1.5.0; sold to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 15 April 1892 (Keppel receipt); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 190 x 309 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 138 x 214 mm |
| Note on size: | The margins were reduced as evidenced by the cropped graphite inscription on the verso |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | HGH countermark? |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | Soft burr overall;: |
| 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: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '[ ]ing Girl / [ ]stroyed plate' at the lower left on the verso (the inscription was cropped when the sheet was trimmed). |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1250202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.