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Salute Dawn, 1879/1880

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series Title

Venice, a Series of Twenty-six Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 12.7 x 20.16 cm (5 x 7 15/16 in.)

sheet (includes tab with signature): 13.18 x 20.16 cm (5 3/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

1943.3.8551

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; on verso: 14420 MK; 1319

(Knoedler & Co., New York.) Purchased by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 215, iv/iv.

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. 207, state iv/iv.

Salute Dawn, 1879/1880