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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12032
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Garden
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Venice, A Series of Twenty-Six Etchings, 1886 (Second Venice Set)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1879 - 1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262915

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed with extensive plate tone in blackish brown ink on Japanese paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
cut to plate: 30 x 23.7 cm (11 13/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: butterfly tab
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 17 / a35771 / The Garden /
  • collector's mark: verso, bottom edge, right of center, purple ink stamp: RH [in a circular borderline, Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215 b)]
  • inscription: tab, bottom sheet margin, left of center, graphite: [butterfly] imp.
  • inscription: to left of image, approximately up one-third from the lower edge, drypoint: butterfly

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Hartshorne (L. 2215 b). Edwin de T. Bechtel, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1946.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow xv/xv
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 210; Glasgow 194

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1946
Object Number
M12032
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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