219The Venetian MastFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.394 State: 6/12 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co. (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 367 x 177 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 340 x 163 mm |
| Note on size: | with small margins |
| 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: | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | with plate tone near the plate edges and heavier tone over the bottom third of the plate |
| Note on foul biting: | granular patches at left and right, especialy on, above and below the standing boy at left and over the standing man at right |
| Print note: | This impression does not have all the work found in the other impression of the fifth state at the FGA (1894.19); thus the designation 5a for this print (it is actually remains the fifth state, and the other impression is a new sixth state); see State descr. |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | large shaded butterfly |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W160 The Mast, trial proof' at lower left on the verso by C.L. Freer; '*' at lower left on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1950503 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.