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James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.24 x 22.54 cm (6 x 8 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 17.78 x 24.13 cm (7 x 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8427

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 53, state ii/vi

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

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. 44.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 53, ii/vi. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Whistler. 1859.; lower center in graphite: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: W42. first state, before much drypoint work in the sky.

Wikidata ID

Q65021843

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