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Agnes

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession 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.