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A woman and child rest on a grassy hill overlooking a road.

In this scene, a woman and child are shown resting on a grassy hill. They are in the bottom right of the image plate. The woman, in a long dark dress and bonnet with long ribbons, reclines back on her left arm with her face in profile. On her left is the child, their back to the viewer, dressed in a black cloak with a white collar and a bonnet. Both are looking down the hill to a a road, where an animal and couple are walking. Even further in the distance are buildings suggested by faint outlines.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12112
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Nursemaid and Child
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1859
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262479

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white modern laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 9.8 × 13.2 cm (3 7/8 × 5 3/16 in.)
sheet: 16.5 × 17.7 cm (6 1/2 × 6 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate, lower left: Whistler
  • inscription: lower right corner of sheet, various graphite inscriptions: 1644 / 5/5/- / $- -
  • inscription: in plate, lower left, etched: Whistler.
  • collector's mark: verso, brownish black stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12, 112 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1947.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 37, Glasgow 42

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12112
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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