M20498: Billingsgate

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M20498

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/262586

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching and drypoint printed in brownish black ink on Japanese paper

Technique

Etching and drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 15.2 × 22.6 cm (6 × 8 7/8 in.)
sheet: 21.9 × 29.2 cm (8 5/8 × 11 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in plate, lower right: Whistler 1859
• inscription: lower margin of sheet, left of center, graphite: B8551-42
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 19372
• inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite, handwritten: dealer/collector inventory number(?): 19372
• inscription: above lower plate edge, to right of center, etched: Whistler. 1859.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Robert Winthrop, Collector.
Arthur H. Harlow & Co., New York, NY, USA.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

Glasgow xiii/ix

Standard Reference Number

Kennedy 4, Glasgow 51

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert Winthrop

Accession Year

1986

Object Number

M20498

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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