Print of body of water with windmills in background
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Two small, low boats are positioned at foreground right and center. A post sticks up from the front of the center boat. They float in a wide body of water. Grasses, represented with zig-zagging lines, occupy the water to the left of the boats. At the horizon beyond the water is a strip of land covered with windmills. Light lines represent billowing clouds above the windmills. Whistler’s signature is written above the clouds.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.265
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Zaandam
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1889
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/12306

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in brownish-black ink with all-over plate tone on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 12.9 x 21.9 cm (5 1/16 x 8 5/8 in.)
sheet: 31.2 x 22 cm (12 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. signature tab with butterfly signature
  • inscription: upper sky to left of center, etched. artist's signature: butterfly
  • inscription: on a dependent tab of paper below the lower plate mark, to right of center, graphite: [butterfly] imp.
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: 5. Mar. 6
  • inscription: verso, graphite: [butterfly] to Wünderlich

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow ii/II
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 416, Glasgow 458

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.265
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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