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James McNeill Whistler

The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea, 1878

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on Asian wove paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 182, state iii/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.8508

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Hogarth and Son (publisher) British

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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. 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

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