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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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