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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M9534
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Little Wheelwright's
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1884
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262880

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in brownish-black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 17.8 x 8.1 cm (7 x 3 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: tab with no butterfly drawn on; in plate: butterfly
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: R3408
  • inscription: upper left, etched: [butterfly]
  • inscription:
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 9534 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. William Simes, 1938.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow only state
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 245, Glasgow 261

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. William Simes
Accession Year
1938
Object Number
M9534
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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