126Nude RecliningFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1903.259 State: 1/1 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), London; bought from Obach & Co. by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1903 (receipt 9 December 1904); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 215 x 308 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 138 x 215 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | The sheet was removed from a book; with an old [German or Dutch?] inscription in brown ink on the verso |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | basle crozier with three balls |
| Medium: | drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | grey and black wash on the outlines of the body, head and kerchief |
| Print tone: | |
| Note on foul biting: | |
| Print note: | Presumably the impression used for the illustration for Kennedy's 'first' state; see the note about size discrepancy under 'State descr.' There is only one state for this etching. The burr is greyr ather than black |
| 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: | |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W113 'Sketch of a girl' 1st State.' at the lower left on the recto by C. L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K1260102 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.