R219NA: The Little Pool

Identification and Creation

Object Number

R219NA

People

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)

Title

The Little Pool

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects, 1871

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1861

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/249992

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white Japanese paper

Technique

Drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 10.4 × 12.7 cm (4 1/8 × 5 in.)
sheet: 14 × 16.3 cm (5 1/2 × 6 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in plate: Whistler 1861; below plate line: butterfly insignia + imp
• inscription: lower sheet margin just below platemark, left of center, graphite: [butterfly] imp.
• inscription: in plate, middle left, etched: Whistler. 1861 -
• collector's mark: verso, graphite; no Randall stamp is visible, but it should be: JOHN WITT RANDALL COLL. / HARVARD COLLEGE / no. [number on a dotted line] [Lugt 2130]: 219.NA

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

H. Wunderlich and Co., Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1898.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

Glasgow ix/ix

Standard Reference Number

Kennedy 74, Glasgow 79

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, John Witt Randall Fund

Object Number

R219NA

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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