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The Boy (Charlie Hanson)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession no: 1943.3.8472
State: 6/8

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  
Provenance:Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943.  
Additional acq. no:B-10533  

 

Paper size:  
Plate mark size:  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:possible countermark? (illegible)  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:with heavy tone at lower right, behind the figure, (?) light, even tone elsewhere  
Note on foul biting:very few tiny pits  
Print note:  

 

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:no  
Collector's mark:'LJR' stamp (L.J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b)  
Dealers' stock nos:'c.1509' at lower right on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'K.135vi The Boy' at lower left on the recto by Harold Wright  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1350602  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.