Price's Candle-Works, c. 1875

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15 × 22.7 cm (5 7/8 × 8 15/16 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 31.4 cm (8 × 12 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 166, state iib/xiii

Accession Number

1943.3.8488

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler (printer) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

"[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

(Albert W. Scholle collector's mark) recto and verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 2923a). "B.M." (Bernard B. MacGeorge collector's stamp) verso, purple stamped ink, (Lugt 394). "LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

Provenance

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394); (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 37288). Albert W. Scholle [d. 1910], New York, (Lugt 2923a). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c), purchased 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Scholle, Albert W.

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. 154, i/iv.

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. 166, state iib/xiii.