The Doorway

1880

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint and roulette on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.1886

  • 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


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