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1879/1887

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

Associated Artworks

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Nocturne

James McNeill Whistler

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Victoria Club

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Old Battersea Bridge

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Nesta Spink, Ann Arbor, MI); purchase and exchange 1992, NGA

Associated Names

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 13.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 93-96, no. 17, iv/iv.

Inscriptions

center in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 5/5

Wikidata ID

Q75120015


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