Lobster-Pots
c. 1880/1881
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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Dimensions
overall (trimmed to plate): 11.5 × 19.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.8559
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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