135Fanny LeylandBritish MuseumAccession no: 1973-09-15-25 State: 4/6 |  |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | Photo © Trustees of the British Museum |
| Provenance: | Acquired from Whistler by W. C. Alexander; passed by family descent to his daughter, Rachel Alexander; sold by her executors with 19 other etchings for a total of £3165.0.0 to the British Museum, London, 1973 (Report of Gere, Keeper of the Print Room, 17 17 August 1973, Trustees Reports). |
| Additional acq. no: | PRN: PPA50427 |
| Paper size: | 307 x 208 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 195 x 132 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | pale buff |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | japanese |
| Note on the paper: | widely spaces chain lines, quite a firm paper, with a few fibres, some dark and wide, some narrow and light. |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light, slightly uneven tone, with a little more down the right, providing a soft tecture over the dress and round her figure; the area round her feet looks clean wiped. |
| Note on foul biting: | only at the top right corner. |
| Print note: | There is a slight burr on the butterfly, her hair and ruffles; the uneven tone detracts from the total effect. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | butterfly |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | 'Fanny Leyland' (faint) |
| 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: | n/a |
| Dealers' stock nos: | n/a |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '10-' on recto below right |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1080403 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.