39The Music RoomFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.249 State: 2/4 |  |
| 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), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 205 x 269 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 145 x 217 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Japan |
| Note on the paper: | Eastern paper: kozo; little debris - even distribution. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | Printed with fairly heavy plate tone at near upper and lower right and lower left corner of plate and lighter tone ar upper left; the figures' torsos, lamp and table top clean-wiped. |
| Note on foul biting: | Small flecks scattered throughout and dark, prominent foul biting at plate corners and along plate edge, particularly noticeable at right, left and bottom. |
| Print note: | Some drypoint shading on Deborah Haden's skirt and floor below it; fingerprints etched into plate at upper left corner now partly coverd with etched lines. |
| 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: | M. Smith records previously existing inscriptions: "S.Haden" underthe left-hand figure, "Frear" corrected to "Traer" under central figure, "Mrs. Haden" underthe right-hand figure and "S.H." at right corner in graphite in Seymour Haden's hand. All were erased 1924.01.24. |
| Collector's mark: | NO |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W26. The Music Room. 2nd [underscored] State' on verso by C. L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0330203 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.