Tillie: A Model, 1873

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.3 × 15.6 cm (9 3/16 × 6 1/8 in.)

sheet: 32.2 × 20 cm (12 11/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 113, state iv/v

Accession Number

1949.5.540

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

[Whistler's butterfly signature] center left composition, in plate, artist's hand. Not dated. "HM" verso, lower center sheet, unknown hand. "HM" lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "HD/-/4671" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

(Howard Mansfield collector's stamp) verso, blue stamped ink, (Lugt 1342). "LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. (Harris Whittemore collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1384a).

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, 17 January 1949, lot 184); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Mansfield, Howard
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Whittemore, Harris

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 117, iii/iv.

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. 113, state iv/v.