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James McNeill Whistler

The Traghetto, No.II, 1879/1880

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series Title

Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 233, state vi/ix

Accession Number

1943.3.8523

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

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Inscription

center left printed in black ink: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left in graphite on the paper tab: [the artist's monogram] imp.

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); 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. 191, iv/vi.

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. 233, state vi/ix.

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