10.1985: The Forge: Passage du Dragon

Identification and Creation

Object Number

10.1985

People

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)

Title

The Forge: Passage du Dragon

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1894

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/237515

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Lithograph printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper

Technique

Lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 33.1 x 21.1 cm (13 1/16 x 8 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite butterfly
• watermark: paper, compression: GR with crown, see Stratis 91-97
• inscription: lower margin, right of center, graphite, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: signature: [butterfly]
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite, handwritten: dealer/collector inventory number (?): L. 406
• collector's mark: verso, lower left, brown ink, stamped: initial BP in sketchy square: Lugt 406, Rosalind Birnie Philip (lifetime stamp- design by Whistler)
• collector's mark: verso, lower left, ink, stamped: tulip shape with only two petals: Marjorie Cohn

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Rosalind Birnie Philip, (L. 405 and 406).

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

Chicago iii/iii

Standard Reference Number

Way 72; Art Institute of Chicago 102

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Charles C. Cunningham, Jr.

Object Number

10.1985

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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