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James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.24 × 22.7 cm (6 × 8 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.8 × 26.35 cm (8 3/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1492

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 64, only state

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 24

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 56.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 64, only state. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: Whistler.-

Markings

stamped upper right verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q77013001

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