Elinor Leyland, 1873

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Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.59 x 13.65 cm (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.)

sheet: 29.21 x 18.42 cm (11 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Kennedy 1910, no. 109, iii/vii

Accession Number

1943.3.8467

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left on the recto: butterfly imp.; lower left on recto: 3558 (circled); lower left on verso: 17116; lower right on the recto (may be by Whistler): at lower centre on the recto (looks a bit like Pennell's hand): Miss Elinor Leyland; Elinor Leyland

Provenance

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 109, iii/vii.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012: no. 137, state iv/viii.