The Doorway
1880
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, drypoint and roulette on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Accession
1943.3.1886
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 193
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 36481). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1988
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.
2003
"Whistler and His Circle in Venice", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; The Grolier Club, New York, 2003.
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 188, v/vii.
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. 193.
Inscriptions
on plate: [butterfly]; on verso: [butterfly]; lower left: Mr. Rawlinson -; on tab: butterfly imp.
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64958905