Old Battersea Bridge

1879

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

    1949.5.547

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 188, state ii/vii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by J. P. Elton, 1910. Aacquired 1919 by Harris Whittemore [d. ca 1937], Naugatuck, CT, (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Purchased 1949 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 177, i/vi.

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. 188, state ii/vii.

Inscriptions

on verso of sheet lower left: [artist's butterfly]; at lower right on verso: 1st State only proof butterfly; by later hands, on verso: 12 5/8 9 (upside down)

Watermarks

strasbourg lily with '4W' below

Wikidata ID

Q65077032

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