Seymour Standing Under a Tree

1858/1859

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Mary E. Maxwell)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.34 × 9.84 cm (5 1/4 × 3 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 28.1 × 18.89 cm (11 1/16 × 7 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.610

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 30, state ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary E. Maxwell; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 21, repro

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 31.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 30, ii/iii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: "Seymour"; lower right in plate: Whistler; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 35

Wikidata ID

Q77013535

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