248The ModelFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1893.20 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Max Williams & Co. (receipt, 1 May 1893), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1893; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 262 x 179 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 254 x 178 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: | mezzotint ? aquatint, softground or open bite? |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | no |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | The plate appears to have been covered with heavy, even aquatint or open bite and then scraped out minimally to produce the shadowy figure at centre; while the dark ground was clearly not produced by a roulette wheel or rocker, the process was parallel to mezzotint |
| 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: | butterfly 'imp.' |
| Note on the tab: | tab 31-44 mm from left, height 7 mm, butterfly 1888 |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | '4482' at lower right on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'The Model only impression ever printed' at lower centre on the verso by C.L. Freer; 'RO' at lower right on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K3460102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.