The Little Lagoon, 1879/1880

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.54 × 15.24 cm (8 7/8 × 6 in.)

sheet (with tab): 23.34 × 15.72 cm (9 3/16 × 6 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Margaret Coughlan)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 216, state ii/iv

Accession Number

2015.19.3262

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left in graphite: [the artist's butterfly] imp.; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 11; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: V8A-

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. 186.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 216, ii/iv. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk