King's Road, Chelsea, c. 1886/1888

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (trimmed to plate): 10.8 × 6.2 cm (4 1/4 × 2 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 277, only state

Accession Number

1949.5.272

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower center on verso: 6416

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 26899); Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York, (Lugt 1342); probably sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 January 1949, lot 314); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Mansfield, Howard
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Whittemore, Harris

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 278

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. 277, only state.