Afternoon Tea Party
1890-1891
Artist, American, 1844 - 1926

Artwork overview
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Medium
color drypoint and aquatint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 34.77 × 26.35 cm (13 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
sheet: 48 × 31.4 cm (18 7/8 × 12 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.2744
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Catalogue Raisonné
Mathews and Shapiro 1989, no. 13, v/v
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1944
Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1944.
1958
Inaugural Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico, 1958.
1963
Prints and Drawings by Mary Cassatt. From the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1963.
1964
Prints by Mary Cassatt, organized by the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibition Service and circulated to 10 venues (Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; Norton Gallery & School of Art, Palm Beach, FL; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Charles & Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, OH; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; and A.D. White Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), 1964-1965.
1973
Whistler, Cassatt and Hassam: three American printmakers, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, 1973.
Bibliography
1979
Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme. Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979, no. 151, iv/iv.
1989
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989, no. 13, v/v.
Inscriptions
recto: below image, at left, in graphite: M.C.; at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: II [?]; verso: in graphite, at upper left, in later hand: 1546
Markings
none
Watermarks
E D & C [Planche de Bas countermark?]
Wikidata ID
Q64960339