2005.280: The Unsafe Tenement
PrintsWe see a large house. The house is half-timbered, meaning its structural beams are visible from the exterior. It has a textured roof that appears to be covered with rough shingles. The house has a tall main structure and a smaller sloped shed-like area attached to the left. The house is in poor condition. Its exterior is rough and worn. Its roof slopes at uneven angles, and some places appear to have missing shingles. The walls of the shed-like area have gaps in them. A young girl in a light dress stands in the foreground with her head against a wall.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2005.280
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
- Title
- The Unsafe Tenement
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1858
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/12077
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching on thin laid japanese paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
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plate: 15.8 x 22.7 cm (6 1/4 x 8 15/16 in.)
sheet: 18.1 x 24.7 cm (7 1/8 x 9 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Whistler
- inscription: Lower right, etched in plate: Whistler
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Glasgow iv/iv
- Standard Reference Number
- Kennedy 17, Glasgow 18
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- 2005.280
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013
Verification Level
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