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The Guitar Player (M.W. Ridley)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession no: 1943.3.8474
State: 4/7

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  
Provenance:Possibly W. Dowdeswell, London. H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 65709). Knoedler & Co., New York (stock no. 13684 MK). Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971), Philadelphia; given to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943.  
Additional acq. no:B-10537  

 

Paper size:  
Plate mark size:  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:There may be a countermark, but because of heavy drypoint, it is not legible  
Medium:drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:with a halo of tone over the image area  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:Printed in warm black ink  

 

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:'3" ' at lower right on the recto  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'JM' (underlined) over 'J.R' in a rectangle (not in Lugt); (Lessing J. Rosenwald, Lugt 1760b); stylized device in graphite at upper centre on the verso (this may be a version of Walter Dowdeswell's mark; see Lugt 799)  
Dealers' stock nos:'a 65709' and '13684 MK' at lower left on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'8' at lower left on the recto; 'Portrait of W Ridley the painter' at lower left on the verso; '6' at lower centre on the verso; 'mxxx-' at lower right on the verso  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K1400305  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.