The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea, 1878

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Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.46 × 30.16 cm (6 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 182, state ii/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.8510

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Hogarth and Son (publisher) British

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate (on buildings): OLD FERRY WHARF. / J. JOHNSON / COAL MERCHANT; THE ADAM and EVE - / Wine & Spirit Establ; STOP / PIT; UEWS; in circle at lower left on verso: 110; lower right on the verso: e / - / -

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 51110). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 175.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 182, ii/iii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk