Father and Son
1895
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903
Printer, British, 1861/1862 - 1913

Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 21.27 × 15.88 cm (8 3/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
sheet: 29.05 × 25.24 cm (11 7/16 × 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.3497
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Catalogue Raisonné
Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 123
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(M. Lee Stone Fine Prints, San Jose, California); Bud and Fran Moreland Johns, San Francisco, California; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1896
Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 87.
1998
Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 372-374, no. 123.
Inscriptions
upper left on stone: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Early impr. First stage Father + Son; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 87; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: a90330 / a41036 [strikethrough] / nu-
Markings
stamped lower center verso in black ink: [unidentified symbol]
Wikidata ID
Q77010522