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The Little Putney, No.II, 1879

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in dark brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 12.38 x 20 cm (4 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

sheet: 19.05 x 27.62 cm (7 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

1943.3.8514

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

on plate: (butterfly); by later hands: lower centre on the verso: Whistler Little Putney signed with butterfly; lower left on the verso: U / u / g

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

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 180, 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. 187, state ii/iii.

The Little Putney, No.II, 1879