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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M4533
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Old Battersea Bridge
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Notes, 1887
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1879
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262919

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph printed in black ink on cream china paper applied to white wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
chine collé: 20.8 x 34.6 cm (8 3/16 x 13 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite butterfly
  • inscription: lower left corner, graphite, handwritten: W12/ from Jessup (?) sale, Anderson gal. Nov. 20, 1920
  • inscription: verso, below center, graphite, handwritten: dealer/collector inventory number (?): 1929.216
  • inscription: lower margin, on wove backing paper, left of center, graphite, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: signature: [butterfly]
  • inscription: at left under the bridge, lithograph printed in black ink: butterfly
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 4533 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
Way 12; AIC 18

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James N. Rosenberg
Accession Year
1929
Object Number
M4533
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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