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1888

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in dark brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (trimmed to plate): 14.5 × 7.9 cm (5 11/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8627

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 391, state iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York.) Bought October 29, 1928 by 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. 368.

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. 391, state iii/iii.

Inscriptions

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower centre on verso: MK 30688; upper center verso: (title)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65022043

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