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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12665
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Soupe à trois sous
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1859
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262390

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed on very thin beige modern laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 15.1 × 22.5 cm (5 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
sheet: 21 × 26.7 cm (8 1/4 × 10 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: Whistler
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, left of center, graphite: : 4672
  • inscription: lower right sheet corner, graphite: 21
  • inscription: in blank background, etched: Whistler.
  • watermark:
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,665 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1951.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow only state
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 49; Glasgow 64

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
M12665
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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