M21984: The Unsafe Tenement
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M21984
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
- Title
- The Unsafe Tenement
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Twelve Etchings from Nature (French Set)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1858
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/262924
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching printed in black ink on tan Japanese paper, light struck
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
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plate: 15.8 × 22.8 cm (6 1/4 × 9 in.)
sheet: 21.7 × 36.3 cm (8 9/16 × 14 5/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: in plate, lower right: Whistler
- inscription: lower left margin of sheet, graphite, handwritten: letter and number: B5004-36
- inscription: at lower right corner, etched: Whistler [s backwards]
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collector's mark: lower right corner of sheet, blue stamp with accession number written below in graphite:
THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 21984 [Lugt 936]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Priscilla England and Jean Stern.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Glasgow iv/iv
- Standard Reference Number
- Kennedy 17; Glasgow 18
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Priscilla England and Jean Stern in honor of Agnes Mongan
- Accession Year
- 1992
- Object Number
- M21984
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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