146AgnesFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.349 State: 2/3 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 345 x 225 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 226 x 151 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | De Erven Dk Blauw |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | With tone over the bodice and the shading around the head; some ink smudges near the plate edges; an inky plate mark. |
| Note on foul biting: | Many tiny pits and scratches |
| Print note: | The drypoint lines of the figure's head and torso and the lines around the head are printed with burr, may explain Kennedy's description of some lines in the second state as 'wooly'; that appears to be more an effect of printing than of the lines, themselves |
| 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: | 'W106' at the lower centre on the verso by C. L. Freer; blue dot at the lower left corner on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1340104 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.