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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21984
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Unsafe Tenement
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Twelve Etchings from Nature (French Set)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1858
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262924

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on tan Japanese paper, light struck
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 15.8 × 22.8 cm (6 1/4 × 9 in.)
sheet: 21.7 × 36.3 cm (8 9/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate, lower right: Whistler
  • inscription: lower left margin of sheet, graphite, handwritten: letter and number: B5004-36
  • inscription: at lower right corner, etched: Whistler [s backwards]
  • collector's mark: lower right corner of sheet, blue stamp with accession number written below in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 21984 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Priscilla England and Jean Stern.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iv/iv
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 17; Glasgow 18

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Priscilla England and Jean Stern in honor of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
M21984
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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