The Smithy, 1880

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.46 × 22.86 cm (6 7/8 × 9 in.)

sheet (irregular): 18.42 × 22.86 cm (7 1/4 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Bud and Fran Moreland Johns)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 239, state iv/vi

Accession Number

2015.19.3493

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 left verso in graphite by unknown hand: ARG16290; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: The Smithy (K.240) / P652

Provenance

(C. & J. Goodfriend Drawings and Prints, New York); Bud and Fran Moreland Johns, San Francisco, California; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bud and Fran Moreland Johns
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Goodfriend, C. & J.

Exhibition History

2013: Recent Acquisitions: American Art from the Johns Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013-2014

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 240.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 239, iv/vi. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk