131The MuffFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1892.4 State: 2/4 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891), London; sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892 (lot 211), bought by Deprez & Gutekunst, £2.15.0; bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1892 (Deprez & Gutekunst receipt, 5 March 1892); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 156 x 90 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 126 x 75 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | This appears to be from the same sheet as FGA 1898.360; 'modern' laid (post 1800), even distribution, much debris, vertical chain lines |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | partial Pro Patria (?) |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | traces of plate tone at right |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: |
| 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: | |
| Collector's mark: | 'JHH' blindstamp (J. H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921); 'AH' in a circle, below platemark; Freer's seal, complete and without color, below plate mark, and partial and without color, in top margin. |
| Dealers' stock nos: | '9454' at centre on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '9454 The Muff 183(?) 2' in unidentified writing, erased, recto. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1130102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.