The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea

1878

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Hogarth and Son

Publisher, British

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on Asian wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.46 × 30.16 cm (6 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8508

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 182, state iii/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.  

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 175.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 182, iii/iii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: [the artist's butterfly]

Watermarks

[none]

Wikidata ID

Q65021925


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