The Tyresmith, 1890

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Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 16.83 × 17.5 cm (6 5/8 × 6 7/8 in.)

sheet: 28.58 × 22.23 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Bud and Fran Moreland Johns)

Catalogue Raisonné

Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 36

Accession Number

2015.19.3494

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Thomas Robert Way (printer) British, 1861/1862 - 1913

The Whirlwind (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

left center on stone: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left margin in graphite by unknown hand: Whistler; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: [undeciphered] O / 5.00; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: APG15972

Marks and Labels

printed upper right in black ink: Presented with The Whirlwind, Nov. 15, 1890.

Provenance

(C. and J. Goodfriend Drawings and Prints, New York); Bud and Fran Moreland Johns, San Francisco, California, 2000; 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

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1890: The Whirlwind 2, no. 20 (November 15, 1890).

1896: Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 27.

1998: Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 152-153, no. 36.