M3178: The Mast
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M3178
- People
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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
- 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
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- 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
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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
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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
- Permissions
-
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Verification Level
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