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Print of several separate sketches of figures and landscape on single sheet

A single wide sheet of off-white paper has dark gray sketches scattered around the page. In the upper left corner are several views of heads and busts of figures. There are men wearing hats, a squinting person in profile, and a circular vignette of a figure holding a child. In the upper right corner is the head of a bearded man in a pointed cap. Farther down, two wide landscape views divide the page horizontally Both show hills above wide bodies of water. The sketch at bottom left is a more abstract, amorphous shape made up of parallel curving lines.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
G5728
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1854
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/280029

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 14.9 × 26.4 cm (5 7/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
plate: 14 × 25.3 cm (5 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Early Sketches by Whistler
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    GRAY COLLECTION, / 5728 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
F. Keppel, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1910.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
only state
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 1, Glasgow 1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G5728
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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