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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12101
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Little Mast
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Venice, A Series of Twelve Etchings, (First Venice Set) 1880
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1879 - 1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303641

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 26.8 x 18.7 cm (10 9/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: butterfly tab; in plate: butterfly insignia
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: trial proof [underlined]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: E C o xv [underlined]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, black stamp: JC [within a circular borderline] [(Lugt 1429) Jefferson Coolidge]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: The Little Mast, W.151.
  • inscription: tab, bottom left edge, graphite, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: signature: butterfly tab
  • inscription: upper right near plate edge, etched: [butterfly]
  • inscription: on dependent tab below lower plat edge at left, graphite: [butterfly] imp.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jefferson Coolidge (L. 1429)
Edwin de T. Bechtel, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1947.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iii/viii
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 185; Glasgow 196

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12101
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Verification Level

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