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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21513
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Jewelry Shop
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Atelier de Bijouterie
Alternate Title: The Jeweler's Shop
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1887-1888
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/263010

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in brownish-black ink, with allover plate tone, on off-white Japanese laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 12.7 x 21.6 cm (5 x 8 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: butterfly tab; in plate: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 70.081
  • collector's mark: verso, half on tab, blue stamp: HM[cross, interlinked, within a circular borderline] [Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342)]
  • inscription: on a dependent tab of paper below the lower plate mark, toward left corner, graphite; according to Glasgow 378 entry, this is not by Whistler.: [butterfly] imp
  • inscription: etched within the design: [from Glasgow 378 entry]: signboard above arch: '[…] IE G. [?]AAG Sr / [BOUT]IQUE DE BIJOUTE[RIE] / […] SUR EN MED[…]E[…]ROIX D[…] OLI'; immediately above lower window: 'ATELIER DE BIJOUTERIE'; signboard at right: 'SAGET / AVENUE (?) / MEROFAGES (?) […] / […] EUIE S BRIES? […] POISSONS'; on street sign: '[…] / 9 (?)'

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow only state
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 433;Glasgow 378

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alvin Whitley Fund
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
M21513
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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