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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M3178
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Mast
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Venice, A Series of Twelve Etchings, 1880
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1879 - 1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262714

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed with plate tone at the plate's edges in brownish-black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 34 x 16.3 cm (13 3/8 x 6 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: butterfy tab; in plate: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: dependent tab, below the bottom plate edge, left, graphite: [butterfly] imp.
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: a 38265
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: Wx o o
  • collector's mark:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 3178 [Lugt 936]
  • watermark: letters: illegible
  • inscription: etched at left edge just below center, faint: [butterfly]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Bain Hoyt.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow xii/xii[?]
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 195, Glasgow 219

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
Accession Year
1927
Object Number
M3178
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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