The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea, 1878

Not on View

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

plate: 17.46 × 30.16 cm (6 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)

sheet: 24.13 × 34.61 cm (9 1/2 × 13 5/8 in.)

MacDonald 2012, no. 182, state iii/iii

2015.19.402

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Hogarth and Son (publisher) British

upper left in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 7215; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: a53714

Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Garfinckel, Julius

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 29

1983: Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 29

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 175.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 182, iii/iii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk