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Identification and Creation

Object Number
8.1991
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Savoy Scaffolding
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1887
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/237503

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed with plate tone at the very bottom of the sheet in brown ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 17.6 x 8 cm (6 15/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: butterfly tab; in plate: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: Savoy Scaffolding /121 (circled) / K 267 / only state/ gift from CCC - / to MCohn / Dec. 1977 / c 354 0[struck though] 35[illeg]
  • collector's mark: veso, lower right corner, graphite: [bicuspid] 77 [Majorie B. Cohn]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp: trefoil [three Cs} [Charles C. Cunningham, jr. (Lugt 4684)]
  • inscription: at left in lower rank of scaffolding, etched: [butterfy]
  • inscription: on pendant tab below lower platemark, to right, graphite: [butterfly] imp.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow only state
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 267, Glasgow 317

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Charles C. Cunningham, Jr.
Object Number
8.1991
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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