Savoy Scaffolding

c. 1887

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

This is a drawing of a construction site with scaffolding and tools. The drawing features detailed scaffolding structures erected around an unseen building as viewed from the exterior. There are figures sketched on the scaffold platform, and a wheelbarrow is lightly sketched at the bottom right.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in dark brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (trimmed to plate): 17.7 × 8.1 cm (6 15/16 × 3 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.5.269

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 317, only state

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York, (Lugt 1342); acquired by Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 January 1949, lot 305); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 267.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 317, only state.

Inscriptions

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65076832

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