137Elinor LeylandFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1909.114 State: 5/8 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | C.W. Dowdeswell (1832-1915), London. C. Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1909; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 334 x 212 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 213 x 139 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | buff |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid, 'antique' |
| Note on the paper: | 'antique' laid paper, ivory discoloured to buff, removed from a book; stitching holes along the right sheet edge |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | Arms of Amsterdam |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Light overall plate tone, with considerably more at left--over the drypoint shading and on the shadows--obscuring individual lines |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: |
| 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: | 'Whistler.' (underlined) |
| 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: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'FROM / C.W. DOWDESWELL / 36 CHANCERY LANE' stamp (C.W. Dowdeswell, Lugt 690) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'C. OF. --. $' at lower left on the verso; 'R.R --' at lower right on the verso; '11 B' ('11' encircled) at centre on the verso; '32' at lower centre on the verso; 'G.T. Mun' (?) at lower centre on the verso; 'W95' at lower left on the verso by C.L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1090502 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.