86The ForgeFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1905.161 State: 4/6 |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca 1829 - d. 1891), London. Bought from Thomas Way (1837-1915) by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, June 1905; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 215 x 337 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 194 x 316 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
| Note on the paper: | cream discoloured to buff; much debris - even distribution |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | the white spot behind the blacksmith's head remains, but it is filled in with graphite. |
| Print tone: | traces of plate tone on shadows of foreground |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | While a dry impression compared to 1894.23, it appears to be a result of less manipulation of ink and is also before the white spot behind blacksmith's head was covered with lines (see state description) |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler. / 1861.' ( 't' not crossed) |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | see signature |
| 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: | Hutchinson seal without colour, recto: AH [in a circle]. Unidentified writing in pencil, verso: 9335. M. Smith wrote in pencil, verso: 05.161 K.68. |
| Collector's mark: | 'JHH' blindstamp (J. H. Hutchinson, Lugt 2921) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | '9335' on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0680305 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.