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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R212NA
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Forge
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects, 1871
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1861
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/250183

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed with considerable selective plate tone in black ink on off-white Japanese paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 19.5 × 31.8 cm (7 11/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
sheet: 23 × 35.4 cm (9 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: Whistler, 1866; below plate line: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: a26818 [underlined] / 196
  • inscription: below bottom plate line, left of center, graphite, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: Whistler's butterfly insignia + imp.
  • inscription: lower right corner, ink, etched: Whistler. / 1866.
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 212
  • inscription: lower sheet margin just below platemark, graphite: [butterfly] imp.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
H. Wunderlich and Co., Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1898.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow vi/vi
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 68; Glasgow 86

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, John Witt Randall Fund
Object Number
R212NA
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michel Melot, The Impressionist Print, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1996), repr. as figs. 37, 38, pp.38-39 [not Harvard Impression; related bibliography]

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