The Large Pool, c. 1879

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 18.8 × 27.8 cm (7 3/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

sheet: 28.8 × 38.7 cm (11 5/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 180, state vi/viii

Accession Number

1943.3.8507

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right verso: 109

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 65721); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b), 1929; 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.

1953: Whistler's Prints after Fifty Years, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1953.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 174, v/vii.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 180, vi/viii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk