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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12109
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Music Room
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1858
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262566

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in brownish-black inkwith extensive plate tone on off-white modern laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 14.5 × 21.6 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
sheet: 18.3 × 17.9 cm (7 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin, center, graphite: The Music Room
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: c--------[illeg.]
  • collector's mark: verso, center, black stamp: MS [within circular borderline [Morris Schapiro (Lugt 1918)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Morris Schapiro, Boston, MA, USA (1918), Collector.
Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1947.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iv/iv?
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 33, Glasgow 39

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12109
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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