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James McNeill Whistler

From Pickle-Herring Stairs, c. 1878

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Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.92 x 22.54 cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

sheet: 20.32 x 31.12 cm (8 x 12 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.8501

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly)

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 167, iii/vi.

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. 164, state iv/viii.

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