The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea, 1878

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

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

sheet: 22.23 × 35.24 cm (8 3/4 × 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Margaret Coughlan)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 182, state iii/iii

Accession Number

2015.19.3260

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Hogarth and Son (publisher) British

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: a96156- / K175 Adam & Eve | II state; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: a96156 - rx / a50674 [strikethrough]

Provenance

Margaret Coughlan, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Coughlan, Margaret

Bibliography

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