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painting

Ariwara Narihira carrying his lover

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well-known associate, Bunshichi Kobayashi (see correspondence, Hull to Freer, 1898-1900, as well as invoices from E.S. Hull Jr., 1898-1900, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives). See also, Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), pgs. 15 an

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painting

Arrangement in Black: Portrait of F. R. Leyland

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Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from William Marchant & Co., through Mr. R. A. Canfield, in May 1905 [2]

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Arthur Haden

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Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G66 state 2 of 4.

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Arthur Haden

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Arthur Haden

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object

Arthur Haden

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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, whi

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Arthur Haden

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[1] See List of Whistler Objects transferred to Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This print is part of a set that was purchased from Knoedler and Co. in March of 1893. The set was kept in the Reserve Section until January of 1921, when it was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution and each print given a registration number for that year (see

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