M23097: Titlepage: the French Set

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M23097

People

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

Title

Titlepage: the French Set

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Twleve Etchings from Nature (French Set)

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1858

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/252214

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching printed in brownish-black ink on tan modern laid paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 11.1 × 14.5 cm (4 3/8 × 5 11/16 in.)
sheet: 16.1 × 23.5 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: top edge, paper, compression: partial view of the top part of a bell (?), similar to watermark #43, p.315, 351 in AIC Whistler Lithograph catalogue, this watermark suggests a posthumous printing, if found to be coterminous with the AIC catalogue watermark #43, p.315, 351.
• inscription: in plate, top right, top center, top left, bottom center, etched: Douze / Eaux Fortes / d'apres Nature - / par / James. Whistler. / Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171. Paris. Nov. 1858 - [at top]
  
  
  
  
  
  A. / Mon viel Ami Seymour Haden. [at bottom]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Robert Gardner, Gift to Fogg Art Museum.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

only state

Standard Reference Number

Kennedy 25; Glasgow 22

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert Gardner

Accession Year

1996

Object Number

M23097

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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