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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12108
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Liverdun
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Twelve 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/262583

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on off-white laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 10.7 × 15.4 cm (4 3/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
sheet: 26.4 × 34.8 cm (10 3/8 × 13 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate, lower left: J. Whistler; in plate, upper right: Whistler
  • inscription: lower right, below plate mark, brown ink: Liverdun / Before plate steeled
  • inscription: bottom edge of sheet, graphite: K. 16 II / Liverdun
  • inscription: lower left, graphite, handwritten: number: 2
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite, handwritten: partially illegible initials with numbers: VMC 16243
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right corner, blue stamp: C.B. [within rectangular borderline] [Charles Buckingham (Lugt 497)]
  • watermark: HALLINES fleur de lis
  • inscription: lower left corner, etched: J. Whistler
  • inscription: lower foreground to right of center, etched: Imp.Delatre. Rue St Jacques 171.
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY 12108 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1947.
Clarence Buckingham, (497), Collector.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iii/iii
Edition
Imp. Delâtre
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 16, Glasgow 13

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12108
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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