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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M3177
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Chelsea
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Fulham
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1879
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262715

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 25.8 × 33.7 cm (10 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
plate: 13.3 × 20 cm (5 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, center. The Glasgow catalogue for this state says, "Published in this state in the Art Journal, 1882.", but says nothing about the American edition.: CHELSEA / DRAWN AND ETCHED BY J.A. McNEILL WHISTLER. / NEW YORK. PATTERSON & NEILSON
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: Fulham / K 182
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 3177 [Lugt 936]
  • inscription: lower right foreground, etched: [butterfly]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow v/v
Edition
Patterson & Neilson, NY.
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 182, Glasgow 181

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
Accession Year
1927
Object Number
M3177
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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