A drawing showing a blacksmith in a dark doorway standing over a workbench.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The primary framing element of this image is an open, dark doorway, through which a workshop is barely visible in shadows. Above the doorway is a round pediment with the base of a window frame. Just outside the doorway, at the bottom left, is either a cat or a dog facing left. A man stands with his head bent over an anvil at a workbench on the threshold of the doorway. He is in long robes and has short hair and a beard.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12120
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Smith: Passage du Dragon
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1894
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262922

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tranfer lithograph with stumping printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 35 x 23.5 cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite butterfly
  • inscription: lower margin, right, graphite, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: signature: [butterfly]
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite, handwritten: dealer/collector inventory number(?) with print authority number:
    a91583/ a39230 es-W 73
  • inscription: verso, center of lower margin, graphite: Smith, Passage du Dragon
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: HCH[? illegible]
  • watermark: [V]AN GELDER ZONEN [Van Gelder Zonen, see Stratis 309 (countermark to Fortune Figure, Stratis 151)]
  • inscription: lithpgraphed, on left door: [butterfly]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/iii
Standard Reference Number
Way 73; Art Institute of Chicago 103

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12120
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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