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A girl rests with their back against a tree next to water and looks up out of the image area.

Dominating the middle of this image is a girl in a coat, suit, skirt, stockings, shoes, and cap, leaning her back against a tree with her arms folded behind her. She is mostly in profile, and faces left with her face tilted up and her gaze looking beyond the image area. Behind her is a wooded area filled with tall trees. The tree she rests against is right next to water, and her legs and the trunk of the tree are reflected in it. The word "Seymour" is written in the water area.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12116
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Seymour Standing Under a Tree
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1859
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262565

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 13.4 x 9.8 cm (5 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate, lower right: Whistler; in plate, lower left: Seymour
  • inscription: lower margin of sheet, graphite, largely erased: [erased] This is an early proof / of-------------------------- [erased}
  • inscription: lower left corner of sheet, graphite: 23
  • blind stamp: lower left corner of sheet, blind stamp : TP [Thomas Percy (Lugt 2450)]
  • collector's mark: verso, center, brown stamp: B.M. [within rectangular borderline] [(B. B. MacGeorge (Lugt 394)]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left corner, purple ink, stamp: initials JC encircled (Jefferson Coolidge, Lugt 1429)
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: three dots [arranged in a triangle] .:
  • inscription: in plate, lower right corner, etched: Whistler
  • inscription: in plate, lower left, ink, drypoint [?]: Seymour
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12116 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Percy (Lugt 2450). Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (Lugt 394). Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Boston (Lugt 1429). Edwin de T. Bechtel, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1947.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 31, Glasgow 30

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12116
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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