Print of an empty wine glass on a coaster.
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In this piece, the printed plate is fairly centered on the paper and at a slight diagonal tilting to the right. The image area shows an empty wine glass sitting on a coaster, possible a metal one, with crimped edges and small feet. The glass itself has a circular base, skinny stem, and wide cup. There is a bright point of shine in the top right of the glass, and a reflection of the base and part of the stem is visible in the coaster. Definition of the object is created through dense, black hatching and cross-hatching behind the image.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12110
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Wine Glass
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1858
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262584

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on off-white modern laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 8.4 × 5.7 cm (3 5/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
sheet: 17 × 13.7 cm (6 11/16 × 5 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower left, ink, impression, signed, in artist's hand: signature: Whistler
  • collector's mark: verso, brownish black stamp with accession number written in graphite:

    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12110 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 27; Glasgow 38

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12110
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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