Melon-Shop, Hounsditch, c. 1886/1888

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (trimmed to plate): 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 355, state i/v

Accession Number

1943.3.8596

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower left on verso: MK 30957; 165; lower center on verso: Melon Shop-; lower right on the verso: Hounsditch

Provenance

Knoedler & Co., New York. Purchased November 10, 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 293, 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. 355, state i/v.