The Bridge
1879/1880
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper
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Credit Line
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Accession
1943.3.8537
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 201, no state listed
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock nos. a 28913, 81317). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.
1953
The Collector's Taste, Andrew Dickinson White Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1953-1954.
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 204, viii/viii.
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. 201, no state listed.
Inscriptions
on plate; butterfly; on tab: butterfly 'imp';lower right on the verso: The Bridge / very scarce ; lower left: 145.; lower right: £9
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65021954