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Agnes

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Accession no: 1954/1.357
State: 3/3

Collection credit:Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker  
Image credit:Photo © The University of Michigan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), London. Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), London. Margaret Selkirk Watson Parker (1867-1936), Detroit, MI; bequeathed to the University of Michigan Art Museum, MI, 1954.  

 

Paper size:275 x 199 mm  
Plate mark size:227 x 152 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):Asian laid  
Note on the paper:tissue  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Mottled plate tone, strongets at upper left, upper right and lower right.  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:Kennedy's description of 'confused or woolly' lines on face and upper part of the dress does not make sense; this may have been his interpretation of inking on one or some impressions?  

 

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:butterfly in graphite at lower right  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:'Agnes' at lower right  
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:'D.' at upper left on the recto; '5' at lower right on the recto; 'No 1' at lower right on the verso  

 

Source of information:Museum records  
ID:K1340202  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.