Father and Son

1895

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Thomas Robert Way

Printer, British, 1861/1862 - 1913

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Bud and Fran Moreland Johns)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 21.27 × 15.88 cm (8 3/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 29.05 × 25.24 cm (11 7/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.3497

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 123

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(M. Lee Stone Fine Prints, San Jose, California); 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

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 87.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 372-374, no. 123.

Inscriptions

upper left on stone: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Early impr. First stage Father + Son; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 87; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: a90330 / a41036 [strikethrough] / nu-

Markings

stamped lower center verso in black ink: [unidentified symbol]

Wikidata ID

Q77010522

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