62J. Becquet, SculptorFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.283 State: 1/6 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Probably acquired from Whistler by Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, through T. W. Dewing, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 183 x 149 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 167 x 137 mm |
| Note on size: | as noted by Kennedy 'printed with a frisket,' thus showing only part of the image and no evidence of platemark of 255 x 193 plate |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | 'modern' laid (post 1800); much debris - even distribution, horizontal chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | dark brown |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | with heavy plate tone over entire plate except for sitters' face and collar which have light, graduated tone |
| Note on foul biting: | While there is no visible foul biting, there are numerous remnants of lines from earlier design--along right edge of printed subject, across right arm and cello and at lower left plate edge |
| Print note: | This is the masked version of the plate; note that this is Kennedy's first state, was in the collection of Seymour Haden, is a subject from the Thames Set--and yet is printed with heavy plate tone in the manner of the 1880s. What does this say about date of plate and/or its states? Timing of JMW's development and use of significant plate tone? |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | no |
| 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: | M.Smith records previously existing inscription 'S.H.' in graphite on print's margin. It was erased 1924.3.31. |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W48 Fragment, early proof' on verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0520103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.