M12032: Garden

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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