The Traghetto, No.I
1879/1880
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Accession
1949.5.548
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 231, state i/iv
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Probably sold by Whistler to H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1892, stock no. a 21333). Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York, (Lugt 1342); Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 January 1949, lot 239); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 190, i/iii.
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. 231, state i/iv.
Inscriptions
on plate: [butterfly]; on tab: first proof butterfly imp.; by later hand: perhaps only impression of first state. The plate was destroyed and a new etching made of the subject. H.M.
Watermarks
partial Strasbourg Lily / VGZ (Chicago watermarks 292 and 293)
Wikidata ID
Q65077035