219The Venetian MastFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1902.135 State: 1/12 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Frederick Keppel & Co., by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1902; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 370 x 235 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 399 x 161 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | KF countermark |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | pale plate tone near the plate edges |
| Note on foul biting: | scraper marks are visible on the upper walls of the buildings at left and at the bottom of the plate |
| Print note: | This was formerly catalogued as an impression of the second state, but Kennedy appears to have reversed the first and second states in his catalogue; thus, this is now the first state [Kennedy seems not to have realised that detail was reduced in the second state, rather than added-- and the prominent line or scratch appears in the later state] |
| 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: | '13465' and illegible, at lower right on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Before the Monogram. / Before the coat of the man to the right was changed. And Before the dotted [?] work in the group of women' and 'W160 / The Mast trial proof' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer; '£ EC. Circle with slash' [the EC in script] in unknown hand on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1950203 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.