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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12662
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Bibi Valentin
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1859
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262845

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 15.2 × 22.8 cm (6 × 9 in.)
sheet: 17.4 × 24.6 cm (6 7/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: Whistler 1859
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: EH
  • inscription: lower left, etched: Whistler. 1859.
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,662 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1951.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 50, Glasgow 34

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
M12662
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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