126Nude RecliningFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.260 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. by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903 (receipts 9 December 1903 and 6 January 1904); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 205 x 325 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 139 x 215 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid, 'antique' |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid, blank book, even distribution, much debris, horizontal chain lines. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | Pro Patria |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | Extensive brush, ink and wash additions, including background, outlines of figure and hair parallel horizontals on the sofa/chaise; the subject bordered (within the platemark) by wash lines |
| Print tone: | traces near plate edges |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | Kennedy reproduced this as an impression of the second state, but there is only one state. Background shadows at the top and right, alterations to the figure, and a vertical stripe pattern on the sofa, are added with brush and wash, a dark, granulating wash |
| 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: | 'Melampi historiam copiose das usibunt C nett. ad Theor. III. 43', unidentified writing in brown ink on verso; 'No 60' in unidentified writing on verso; 'x' in a square, on recto; 'Probably the only two impressions that exist. India ink wash covers the background; also brush strokes on couch, girl's head and body' [Kennedy 03.259, 03.260]; 'I have them both.' (according to FGA folder sheet, 'Note by Mr. Freer in margin, referring to Menpes Collection'); "W 113 'Sketch of a Girl.' 2nd State washed with india ink" written by Freer on recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1260202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.