Bird-Cages, Drury Lane, c. 1886/1888

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (trimmed to plate): 12.5 × 9.6 cm (4 15/16 × 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 384, only state

Accession Number

1943.3.8587

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower right on the verso, possibly by Whistler: Birdcages-; on verso lower right: Drury Lane

Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York). Purchased October 29, 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. 281.

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. 384, only state.