202The BalconyFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.189 State: 2/19 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915), London, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 293 x 198 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 293 x 198 mm |
| Note on size: | trimmed just outside the platemark; approx. 1 mm margins |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | ivory laid paper backed with ivory woven paper |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | not legible due to backing sheet |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | black pen and ink additions to the outline of the figure in the doorway; standing figure with a hat (over the outline of a seated figure) added over traces of a former standing man at prow (?) of boat |
| Print tone: | Pale tone over the water in the foreground, at the left and at the centre of the plate. |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks |
| Print note: | The only drypoint is on the figures in the window at right and the linens/drapery hanging over the balcony in front of them; the lines at top are underinked; this must have been a working proof (torn, discarded and salvaged by T. Way?) and is between Kennedy's first and second states. |
| 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: | 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: | '4' at lower left on the verso; '177' at lower right on the verso; 'W177 The Balcony. Trial proof-earlier than the other Way proof / From T Way, June/05' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2070202 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.