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The Bridge, 1879/1880

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series Title

Venice, a Series of Twenty-six Etchings

Medium

etching on Asian laid paper

Credit Line

Accession Number

1943.3.8537

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

on plate; butterfly; on tab: butterfly 'imp';lower right on the verso: The Bridge / very scarce ; lower left: 145.; lower right: £9

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock nos. a 28913, 81317). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 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. 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.

The Bridge, 1879/1880