San Biagio, 1879/1880

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series Title

Venice, a Series of Twenty-six Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint in dark brown on laid paper

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 237, state iv/xvii

Accession Number

1943.3.8654

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: butterfly imp / butterfly of 1885/1886; by later hands on verso: C.3373 / C26714

Provenance

Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York, (Lugt 1342). Bought on 15 March 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); 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.

2003: "Whistler and His Circle in Venice", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 197, iii/ix.

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. 237, state iv/xvii.