The Seamstress, c. 1884/1886

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (trimmed to plate): 9.9 × 6.6 cm (3 7/8 × 2 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 253, state i/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.8571

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; on the verso: Kennedy number

Provenance

Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson [c. 1829 - d. 1892], (Lugt 2921); (sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892, lot 309); bought by Russell, £0.18.0. Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York, ( Lugt 2936). (Knoedler & Co., New York). Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Benedict, Henry Harper
Hutchinson, Joshua H.
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. 252, i/ii.

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. 253, state i/iii.