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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M14339
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Billingsgate
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1859
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262585

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on cream modern laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 15.2 × 22.6 cm (6 × 8 7/8 in.)
sheet: 26.4 × 35.6 cm (10 3/8 × 14 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: Whistler 1859
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: K47VIII Billingsgate / M14339
  • inscription: bottom, right of center, etched: Whistler. 1859.
  • watermark: PORTFOLIO MBM
    (corresponds to watermark #209 in Stratis, AIC lithograph catalogue)
  • collector's mark: verso, brownish black stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 14,339 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow ix/ix
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 47, Glasgow 51

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
M14339
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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