The Large Pool

c. 1879

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.8 × 27.8 cm (7 3/8 × 10 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 28.8 × 38.7 cm (11 5/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8507

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 180, state vi/viii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 65721); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

1953

  • Whistler's Prints after Fifty Years, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1953.

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 174, v/vii.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 180, vi/viii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right verso: 109

Wikidata ID

Q65021924

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