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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M23308
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Hurlingham
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1879
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/252217

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 13.7 × 20 cm (5 3/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
sheet: 22 × 29.2 cm (8 11/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: upper right sheet corner, brown ink: 192
  • inscription: lower sheet edge, starting at the left corner and running to the middle of the sheet, graphite: 4 217 - 3/8 Whitler fo[illeg.] job of 3 'W------ med light cream / Hurlingham 75
  • inscription: lower sheet edge, starting at the middle of the shee and running almost to the right cornert, graphite: 217 Gage 12 x14 3/ / 3" 8 ec - 205 - 217
  • watermark: unidentified partial watermark: [biomorphic shape with a bulbous tail-like projection?]
  • inscription: lower left, etched: [butterfly]
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / M23308 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iv/iv
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 181, Glasgow 184

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Philip Hofer
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
M23308
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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