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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M8677
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The 'Adam and Eve', Old Chelsea
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The "Adam and Eve" Tavern, Old Chelsea
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1879
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262914

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 17.4 × 30.2 cm (6 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
sheet: 29.5 × 37.3 cm (11 5/8 × 14 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: lower left sheet corner, graphite: SM
  • inscription: lower right sheet corner, graphite: 75 -
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: Wisler 8th A [?]
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: 300
  • inscription: in the sky above and to the right of the sqare tower, drypoint (very faint): [butterfly]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 8677 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iii/iii
Edition
Hogarth & Son
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 175, Glasgow 182

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Estate of George R. Nutter
Accession Year
1938
Object Number
M8677
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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