162Whistler with the White LockFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1891.15 State: 1 (re-issued)/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 15 August 1891) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1891; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 310 x 80 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 118 x 80 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Asian laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | |
| Note on foul biting: | Faint scratches on the lower half of the plate |
| Print note: | See comments for FGA 1903.37 regarding medium and cancellation; traces of both possible cancellation lines are visible on this impression and the overall appearance is similar |
| 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: | 'W142' at lower centre on the recto by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1720103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.