124The Guitar Player (M.W. Ridley)Freer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1889.26 State: 4/7 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Bought from Frederick Keppel & Co., by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1889; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 350 x 224 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 275 x 177 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | beehive DEDB |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | There is some plate tone on the jacket and trousers as well as on and to the right of the shading at right. |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | The ink is warm black, and the effect is dark, with burr on the figure. |
| 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: | 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: | 'F' stamp (C.L. Freer, not in Lugt) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | '92433' |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W122' at lower center on the verso by C.L. Freer; 'Guitar Player' at lower centre on the verso; 'NX' (or reversed C next to C) with 'vx' (or reversed c next to c) superscript and underlined; blue dot at lower left on the verso. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1400303 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.