Cameo, No.I

Not on View

Medium

etching on Asian wove paper

Dimensions

overall (trimmed to plate): 17.7 × 12.8 cm (6 15/16 × 5 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 459, only state

Accession Number

1943.3.8620

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left verso in graphite: [?] proof. / signed wth butterfly; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: a55620 / EHX; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 15 (circled) / (two tiny circles)

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 55624?). Bought November 7, 1929 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 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.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 347

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. 459, only state.