Artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
Printer Frederick Goulding, English, 1842 - 1909
Title
  • The Laundress: "La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine"
  • The Laundress (alternate title)
Date 1894, printed in 1904
Medium lithograph printed in black ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions Image: 9 1/8 × 6 1/8 inches (23.2 × 15.6 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 7 5/8 inches (31.4 × 19.4 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Julius H. Haass
Accession Number 30.356
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, on stone, center right edge: [Whistler's butterfly device]
Marks Watermark, center of sheet: PA
Stamp, in brown, lower left: verso: R. Birnie Philip
Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: W58 | K 32862
Inscribed, center bottom edge of sheet: 64
Inscribed, lower right corner: 57
Inscribed, in brown ink, lower right corner: 38
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: a95642
Rosalind Birnie Philip (London, England).
1930-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Bulletin of the DIA 12, 4 (1931): pp. 41-43.