Robert Barr, 1894/1895

Not on View

Medium

etching on brown wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 11 × 8.9 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/2 in.)

sheet: 31.7 × 23.3 cm (12 1/2 × 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 478, only state

Accession Number

1943.3.8657

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

Not signed. Not dated. "Robert Barr etched by Whistler in 1894 at 13 Robert Street Cumberland Market" lower left margin, black ink, unknown hand. "Limited to 45 impressions / No.5. Sickert" lower center margin, black ink, unknown hand. "5" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "5" [circled] verso, lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

Provenance

Purchased August 13, 1931 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. 4.

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. 478, only state.