R216NA: The Pool
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- R216NA
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
- Title
- The Pool
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects, 1871
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1859
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/249996
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white Japanese paper
- Technique
- Etching and drypoint
- Dimensions
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plate: 14 × 21.6 cm (5 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.)
sheet: 17.2 × 24.3 cm (6 3/4 × 9 9/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in plate: Whistler 1859; in sheet margin: butterfly imp.
- inscription: below bottom plate line, right of center, graphite: [butterfly] imp.
- inscription: in plate, lower left, etched: Whistler. / 1859.
- inscription: verso, to right in the composition, graphite: 216
- inscription: in plate, etched: [on signboard] COOPER / Gr GEORGE'S Wf / NEW CRANE / TO LET[ / on boat at right] 'JANE No. 6
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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H. Wunderlich and Co., Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1898.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Glasgow vi/vi
- Standard Reference Number
- Kennedy 43; Glasgow 49
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, John Witt Randall Fund
- Object Number
- R216NA
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Emma Chambers, An Indolent and Blundering Art?: The Etching Revival and the Redefinition of Etching in England, 1838-1892, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, England, 1999), repr. as fig. 5.6 on p. 139 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography]
Verification Level
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