Lobster-Pots, c. 1880/1881

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series Title

Venice, a Series of Twenty-six Etchings

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (trimmed to plate): 11.8 × 19.9 cm (4 5/8 × 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 241, state iv/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.8560

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; on the verso: upper left: 406; at center: 14; lower right: 73 [or 75]

Provenance

Henry Studdy Theobald [b. 1847], London, (Lugt 1376). Purchased July 7, 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to National Gallery of Art, 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. 235, iii/iii.

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. 241, state iv/iv.