159Irving as Philip of Spain, No. 2Freer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.268 State: 2/6 |  |
| 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., (receipts, 9 December 1903 and 6 January 1904) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 350 x 224 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 226 x 152 mm |
| Note on size: | . |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | beehive DEDB |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Selectively wiped, with heavy tone over and around the figure, the face clean-wiped and the right plate edge wiped fairly clean; with an inky plate mark at left |
| Note on foul biting: | Pale traces of acid drops at lower left |
| Print note: | Some lines of the hat, face, collar, torso, hand, arm and costume appear to be etched, but--except for the face--they are heavily retouched with drypoint; this is presumably the impression of the first state reproduced in Kennedy |
| 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: | 'II plate I state' (the 'I's are roman numerals). |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1710102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.