The Wine-Glass, 1858

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Medium

etching in dark brown on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 8.26 x 5.72 cm (3 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.)

sheet: 18.73 x 12.7 cm (7 3/8 x 5 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 38, ii/ii

Accession Number

1949.5.525

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: Whistler

Provenance

Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson [ca 1829 - d. 1891], London, (Lugt 2921); (possibly sold at Sotheby's, 3 March 1892, lot 80). Frederick Keppel & Co., £0.9.0. Acquired 1919 by Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York (Lugt 1342); Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, lot 96); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Hutchinson, Joshua H.
Mansfield, Howard
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Whittemore, Harris

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 27, ii/ii.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 38, ii/ii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk