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Harper Pennington

Portrait of Whistler with a Paintbrush

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Medium

pen and ink over graphite on white wove paper; laid down on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 19.8 × 12.2 cm (7 13/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mark Samuels Lasner

Accession Number

1988.53.5

Artists / Makers

Harper Pennington (artist) American, c. 1853/1855 - 1920

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in black ink: [not deciphered]; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: H2241; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 255 B

Exhibition History

1995: In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James A. McNeil Whistler. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1995, 114, fig. 4:22.

Bibliography

1995: Denker, Eric. In Pursuit of the Butterfly: Portraits of James A. McNeil Whistler. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1995: 114, fig. 4:22.

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