Harvard Art Museums > R212NA: The Forge Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Forge (James Abbott McNeill Whistler) , R212NA,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/250183. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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] Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
