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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12663
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Bibi Lalouette
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1859
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262876

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink, with allover plate tone, on blueish-white modern laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 22.7 × 15.3 cm (8 15/16 × 6 in.)
sheet: 30.6 × 19.3 cm (12 1/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: Whistler
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner of sheet, graphite, handwritten: initials (?): YH
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: A78615
  • inscription: in plate, lower right, etched: Whistler 1859.
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: YH
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,663 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Collector, Gift To Fogg Art Museum, 1951.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 51, Glasgow 53

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
M12663
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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