72Ross WinansFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.322 State: 1/2 |  |
| 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, (receipt 9 November 1898), 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: | 253 x 203 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 249 x 201 mm |
| Note on size: | very narrow 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 1800), even distribution, much debris, vertical chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | Eight balls in a cone with a curled up end |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | brown black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | printed with plate tone on shaded areas at right and bottom |
| Note on foul biting: | lightly distributed over parts of background, legs and shaded areas, with dark patches at near left and right plate edges and lower corners; regular patch of texture, resembling roulette work, on sitter's right thigh may be from scraper used to remove old underlying lines |
| Print note: |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler' with 'Whistler" (the 't' uncrossed) faintly above it |
| 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 notes previous existence of inscription "Portrait of Ross Winans. Mr. Avery thinks he has a later state. S.H." in graphite on old mount (now lost). It was erased 1924.02.12. |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | tiny blue dot near lower left corner on verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0880103 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.