Hurlingham

1879

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.65 × 20.16 cm (5 3/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 17.94 × 26.83 cm (7 1/16 × 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.414

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 184, state iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • Whistler, Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1952

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 181.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 184, iv/iv. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 86W

Watermarks

[royal seal] HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE

Wikidata ID

Q77012950

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