30SeymourFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1889.5 State: 2/3 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, (receipt, 3 May 1889), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 163 x 125 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 134 x 99 mm |
| Note on size: | with fairly small margins |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1880); little debris - even distribution, horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Some light plate tone over background and water in foreground, the figure and tree behind him clean-wiped. |
| Note on foul biting: | Along plate edges and at corners; on upper half of large tree at centre. |
| Print note: | Check drypoint shading on trees in background and reflection In water. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler.' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | ' 'Seymour" ' |
| 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: | Traces of two erased inscriptions: "W23" and "N9illeg)-" in graphite on recto |
| Collector's mark: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'a 14204' on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W23' on verso by C. L. Freer; 'y088' or '9088', 'u/-/-' on verso, partly erased |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0310203 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.