Inscription
Not signed. Not dated. "Robert Barr etched by Whistler in 1894 at 13 Robert Street Cumberland Market" lower left margin, black ink, unknown hand. "Limited to 45 impressions / No.5. Sickert" lower center margin, black ink, unknown hand. "5" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "5" [circled] verso, lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.
Provenance
Purchased August 13, 1931 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
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. 4.
- 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. 478, only state.
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