M23530: Early Morning

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M23530

People

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

Title

Early Morning

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1878

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/252216

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Lithotint with scraping printed in black ink on cream wove paper

Technique

Lithograph

Dimensions

design: 16.7 x 26 cm (6 9/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
sheet: 18.3 x 27.6 cm (7 3/16 x 10 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: a56544 [struck through] /73 D2009 / a65642 [struck through]
• inscription: lithographed, lower left corner: [butterfly]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

i/iv

Standard Reference Number

Way 7; Art Institute of Chicago 9

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Ruth V. S. Lauer, in memory of her father, Joseph Bishop Van Sciver (1861-1943)

Accession Year

1997

Object Number

M23530

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/15/1998 - 11/01/1998; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 07/17/1999 - 09/26/1999; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, 09/30/1999 - 12/10/2000; William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Museum, Chapel Hill, 02/04/2001 - 05/13/2001

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