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162

Whistler with the White Lock

Freer Gallery of Art
Accession 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.