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Print of bridge next to shore with buildings.

We see a landscape from a distance. Across the center of the page is a wooden bridge. It has many supporting columns comprised of groups of vertical beams surrounded by horizontal beams. The water beneath it is smooth and glassy. Land meets the bridge on the right. A tall tower is positioned on the shore along with some houses and a large tree. The shore continues out to the left along the horizon. Whistler’s “butterfly” signature is at bottom center in light strokes.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.289
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Little Putney Bridge
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Little Putney, No.1
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1879
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/12370

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 13.1 x 20.7 cm (5 3/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
sheet: 15.9 x 22.1 cm (6 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. margin signed in pencil with butterfly
  • inscription: recto lower right, drypoint: [butterfly]
  • inscription: lower margin of sheet, below platemark, toward right, graphite: [butterfly]
  • collector's mark: lower left corner of sheet, blind stamp: BP [in center, surrounded by] PRINTSELLERS ASSOCIATION [all within a beaded ovalborderline] [Lugt 2051
  • collector's mark: verso, red stamp: RR [in oval borderline] [Robert Rice (not on Lugt)]
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: [illeg. letter] 35370 / [illeg. number] 71115. / 2005.289

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iv/v
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 179, Glasgow 186

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.289
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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