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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12031
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Nocturne: Palaces
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Twenty-six Etchings (Second Venice Set) 1886
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1879 - 1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262929

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed with considerable plate tone in brownish-black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
cut to plate: 29.5 x 20 cm (11 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: [butterfly]
  • inscription: tab lower margin, left of center, graphite: signature: [butterfly] imp [imprimé]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite, handwritten: inventory number (?): a33573
  • collector's mark: verso, bottom margin, right, purple ink, stamped: initials RH in circular borderlin: [Lugt 2215 b, Robert Hartshorne]
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,031 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Hartshorne (L. 2215b), sold at Park-Bernet Galleries, NY, 23 January 1946. Edwin de T. Bechtel.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow vii/xii
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 202, Glasgow 200

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1946
Object Number
M12031
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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