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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12287
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Wheelwright
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Venice, A Series of Twenty-Six Etchings, 1886 (Second Venice Set)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262916

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 12.6 x 17.7 cm (4 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: butterfly tab; in plate: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: bottom margin, left of center, on pendant tab, graphite: signature: [butterfly] imp [imprimé]
  • inscription: verso, right of center, graphite: 9938
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: -2
  • inscription: verso graphite: 2 / 71
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,287 [Lugt 936]
  • inscription: lower left in foreground, etched: [butterfly]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow ix/ix
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 233; Glasgow 240

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
M12287
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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