Lobster-Pots

c. 1880/1881

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (trimmed to plate): 11.5 × 19.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8559

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 241, state iv/iv


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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. 235, i/iii.

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. 241, state iv/iv.

Inscriptions

on plate: (butterfly); Selsea Bill -; on tab (not by Whistler): (butterfly) imp; lower right corner on the verso: "W"; title and K number at lower left on the verso

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65021975


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