The Fish Shop, Busy Chelsea
1886
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint in brown on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13.7 x 21.7 cm (5 3/8 x 8 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1987.41.73
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 267, state i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Henry Studdy Theobald (1847-1934), London, (Lugt1376). John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook; Gift to NGA, Washington, DC, 1987.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 264, i/ii.
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. 267, state i/ii.
Inscriptions
lower left butterfly signature in graphite on tab; upper left in plate butterfly signature
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q74876923