The Beggars

1879/1880

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.8528

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 190, state xiv/xvii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 59645). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); 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.

1951

  • Contemporary American Prints, Berlin, Germany, 1951-1952.

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 194, viii/ix.

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. 190, state xiv/xvii.

Inscriptions

on tab: butterfly imp.

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65021945

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