About the Artwork
A Symphony (Portrait of James McNeill Whistler)
1878
Sir Leslie Ward (Artist) English, 1851-1922 Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Printer)
Color lithograph
Image: 12 1/8 × 7 1/4 inches (30.8 × 18.4 cm) Sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 1/8 inches (40.3 × 25.7 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Carl F. Barnes, Jr. and Anna M. Barnes
F1984.36
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Markings
Signed, in image lower right: SPY
Printed, in margin, lower center: "a symphony" Printed, upper left: VANITY FAIR Printed, upper right: Jan. 12 1978 Printed, lower left: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith. Annotations Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left, 459.
Provenance
Paul Victorius (Charlottesville, Virginia, USA). Carl F. Barnes, Jr. and Anna M. Barnes
1984-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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From Line to Tone, Selected Prints from the Collection of Carl F. Jr., and Anna M. Barnes. Exh. cat, Meadow Brook Art Gallery. Rochester, MI, 1984, p. 31 (unpaginated). no. 54.
James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1984, no. 54, p. 7 (unpaginated).
Matthews, Roy T. and Peter Mellini. In 'Vanity Fair.' London and Berkeley, 1982 (ill.) p. 76 (listed) p. 222.
Vanity Fair, 480, January 12, 1878, no. 170.
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Sir Leslie Ward, A Symphony (Portrait of James McNeill Whistler), 1878, color lithograph. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Carl F. Barnes, Jr. and Anna M. Barnes, F1984.36.
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