Ramparts, Sandwich, c. 1887

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (trimmed to plate): 12.5 × 17.8 cm (4 15/16 × 7 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 324, only state

Accession Number

1943.3.8604

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower left on verso; AIC / 24.660 (deaccessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago)

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 38988, ca 1904). John Henry Wrenn [1841-1911], Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago, 1924; deaccessioned by the Art Institute. Edward G. Kennedy [1849-1932], New York (Lugt 857). Purchased November 7, 1929 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Kennedy, Edward G.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Wrenn, John Henry

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. 309.

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. 324, only state.