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Turkeys, 1880

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series Title

Venice, a Series of Twenty-six Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 20.96 x 13.34 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.)

sheet (includes tab with signature): 21.91 x 13.34 cm (8 5/8 x 5 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

1943.3.8531

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

on tab: butterfly 'imp.'; lower centre on the verso: Turkeys; by Harold Wright at lower center: K.199i; lower right, both on the verso: (DD856) 1000

Purchased January 15, 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 199, i/ii.

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. 236 , state i/ii.

Turkeys, 1880