Wheelwright, 1879/1880

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series Title

Venice, a Series of Twenty-six Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper

Dimensions

overall (trimmed to plate): 12.6 × 17.7 cm (4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 240, state ix/ix

Accession Number

1943.3.8557

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: (2 butterflies); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower left on the verso: Wheelwright; lower right on the verso: 4; lower right on the verso: 500oo (the oo superscript); lower right on verso: (DD 772)

Provenance

Bought on 14 January 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 233, v/v.

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. 240, state ix/ix.