Arthur Haden
date: label: Date
content: 1859
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Description
content: Cancelled printing plate for the print "Arthur Haden."
label: Signatures
content: Signed on the plate "Whistler 1859."
label: Label
content: An etched copper plate may yield hundreds of impressions, but it will eventually wear down from the pressure of printing. After an appropriately sized edition of an etching or drypoint is completed, the plate can be canceled by scratching lines across it. Because Whistler's prints were highly valued collector's items, impressions such as this were sometimes made from the defaced copper plates, which themselves became collector's items.
label: Provenance
content: To 1890
label: Provenance
content: Frederick Keppel and Co., London, England, and New York to 1890 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1890 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Frederick Keppel and Co. in 1890 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Plates, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler and the Hadens (June 20, 1999 to April 30, 2000)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: metal
label: Topic
content: copper
label: Topic
content: portrait
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1890.7
objectType: label: Type
content: Tool and Equipment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Copper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 23 x 15.5 cm (9 1/16 x 6 1/8 in)