The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea

1878

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Hogarth and Son

Publisher, British

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.46 × 30.16 cm (6 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 24.13 × 34.61 cm (9 1/2 × 13 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.402

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 182, state iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • Whistler, Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1952

1982

  • Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 29

1983

  • Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 29

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]; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 7215; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: a53714

Wikidata ID

Q77008714

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