Price's Candle-Works
c. 1875
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903
Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate (cut to platemark): 15 × 22.7 cm (5 7/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.8487
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 166, state vi/xiii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394); (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 37288). Albert W. Scholle [d. 1910], New York, (Lugt 2923a). Purchased by 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. 154, ii/iv.
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. 166, state vi/xiii.
Inscriptions
[Whistler's butterfly signature] lower right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp" lower left tab, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "a37268" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "E/E/-" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "[illeg]" verso, lower right tab, graphite, unknown hand.
Markings
(Albert W. Scholle collector's mark) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 2923a). "B.M." (Bernard B. MacGeorge collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 394). "LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.
Watermarks
[Arms of Amsterdam]
Wikidata ID
Q65021904