270MarblesFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.31 State: 1/3 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 132 x 96 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 132 x 96 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | yes |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | yes |
| Watermarks: | no |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | traces of tone along the top and right plate edges |
| Note on foul biting: | scattered flecks across the image area |
| Print note: | There are faint outlines of an earlier version of the standing woman at right and traces of the head, shoulders and back of a woman--upside-down--at lower left; these lines are faintly visible on Kennedy's illustration. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | 'BATEY' on sign to left of the door. |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | no |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 69-77 mm from left, height 2 mm |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | Mansfield reads the sign as 'BATEY' |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'Marbles' at lower left on the verso, '#150' at lower centre on the verso and 'I State' at lower right on the verso; 'W312' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K2840102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.