Fishing Boats, Hastings, 1877

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 163, state iii/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.8491

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: butterfly.; in graphite on image: Hastings -; lower right on the recto: W.131

Provenance

Royal Collection, Windsor(?) (crown symbol, pencil Lugt 2921h). Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York, (Lugt 1298). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Benedict, Henry Harper
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. 158, ii/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. 163, state iii/iv.