Inscription
"[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp" lower left tab, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "Fruit & Potato - J.H. Woods. - Salesman" upper center composition, in plate, artist's hand. "Wood's Fruit Shop" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "a 35395" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "mk32565" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 35395). (Knoedler & Co., New York, stock no. MK 32565). Frederick Keppel [1845-1912], New York. Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
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. 265, ii/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. 327, state iii/iv.
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