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James McNeill Whistler

Two Doorways, c. 1879/1880

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series Title

Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint in brownish-black ink on Asian laid paper

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 221, state viii/xiii

Accession Number

1943.3.8525

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: butterfly of ca 1886

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.

2012: "Peintre-graveur: Adventures in Graphic Arts in the 19th Century", Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan, 2012.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 193, v/vi.

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. 221, state viii/xiii.

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