The Punt |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.315) | |
| Number: | 82 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 120 x 166 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower left (1-3); 'W' partly removed (4-final) | |
| Inscribed: | '1861.' at lower left (1-3); partly removed (4-final) | |
| Set/Publication: | Junior Etching Club, 1862 | |
| No. of States: | 6 | |
| Known impressions: | 35 | |
| Catalogues: | K.85; M.86; T.85; W.68 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (35) | ||
STATE
Six states are known.
State 1
Signed and dated 'Whistler / 1861.' at lower left.
The composition is complete.
The impression reproduced above has not been located; it was recorded by Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932). 8 The only known impression is a 'slipped' impression, where the lines appear doubled, and it also has graphite pencil shading at upper right (
).
).8: Kennedy 1910, cat. no. 85 state 1.
State 2
Some of the drypoint lines in the sky at upper left have been rubbed down.
State 3
A few curving drypoint lines are added in the sky above the hills at left and to right and upper right of the poplar trees; new lines are added on the frame of the punt
State 4
The plate signature and date at lower left are partly removed by the bevelling of the plate edge and now read 'Whistler / 861' with the 'W' half missing.
'London, Published December 1st, 1861 by Day & Son, Lith to the Queen,' is engraved between ruled lines near the centre bottom, and 'J. Whistler' at lower right.
Several wavy drypoint lines are added in the sky to right of the tall poplar trees.
State 5
'Pl. 7' is engraved in the right upper corner. Published in Passages from Modern English Poets, illustrated by the Junior Etching Club., Day & Son, 1862.
State 6
The engraved lettering at the bottom has been removed although 'Pl.7' and 'J.Whistler.' remain.
A photogravure of this image without any engraved text was printed within a wider platemark.