Price's Candle-Works, c. 1875

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate (cut to platemark): 15 × 22.7 cm (5 7/8 × 8 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 166, state vi/xiii

Accession Number

1943.3.8487

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

[Whistler's butterfly signature] lower right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp" lower left tab, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "a37268" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "E/E/-" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "[illeg]" verso, lower right tab, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

(Albert W. Scholle collector's mark) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 2923a). "B.M." (Bernard B. MacGeorge collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 394). "LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

Provenance

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394); (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 37288). Albert W. Scholle [d. 1910], New York, (Lugt 2923a). Purchased by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 154, ii/iv.

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. 166, state vi/xiii.