About the Artwork
Elinor Leyland
1873 - 1874
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
American
Unknown
Drypoint
Overall: 5 1/2 × 8 3/8 inches (14 × 21.3 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Museum Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund
2021.242
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, outside plate mark, lower left, A 3349 (dealer stock number) and W95 (referencing Frederick Wedmore, Whistler’s Etchings: A Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886); outside plate mark, lower right, as -- Inscribed, in brown ink, verso, words in an unidentified language, probably 18th century
watermark, Arms of Amsterdam
Provenance
John Caldwell [1839-1909] (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA). 16 December 2020, sold by (Ader, Paris, France) auction, lot 394
(Susan Schulman Fine Art, New York, New York)
2021-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Credit Line for Reproduction
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Elinor Leyland, 1873 - 1874, drypoint. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 2021.242.
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