Details
Artist | James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834-1903 |
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Date | ca. 1885 |
Medium | etching printed in brown ink on laid paper |
Dimensions | Sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 6 1/2 × 4 3/4 inches (16.5 × 12.1 cm) |
Credit Line | Anonymous bequest in memory of Hal H. Smith |
Accession Number | 62.58 |
Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed | Signed in plate, upper right: [Whistler's butterfly device] In pencil on tab, lower left center: [Whistler's butterfly device followed by] imp. |
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Marks | Stamp in blue, verso: Howard Mansfield [Lugt 1342] Stamp in black, verso: HW [Harris Whittemore; see Lugt 1342] |
Inscriptions | Inscribed in pencil, verso, center of sheet: WW Titled, lower center: Regent's Quadrant |
Provenance
Howard Mansfield (New York, New York, USA);
Harris G. Whittemore (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA);
Confidential donor;
1962-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Harris G. Whittemore (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA);
Confidential donor;
1962-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)