Title:
Reading by Lamplight
Maker:
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill; printmaker; American artist, 1834-1903
Category:
Name:
print
Date:
1858
School/Style:
British
Production
Note:
Second state
Technique(s):
etching
drypoint
Material(s):
black carbon ink; medium
Japanese paper; support
Dimension(s):
height, plate, 161, mm
width, plate, 119, mm
height, sheet, 326, mm
width, sheet, 234, mm
Acquisition:
given; 1923-09; Riches, Mrs T.H.
Inscription(s):
signature; image lower right; printed; J. Whistler
title; sheet lower left; graphite; Reading by Lamplight / (M.30. K.32 W.25) / 2nd state
inscription; sheet lower right; graphite; Given by M.rs T. H. Riches / Sep 1923
number; sheet lower right corner; graphite; 20; 4 written over the 0 of '20'
Alternative
Number(s):
Wedmore (Whistler); 25; 1899
Mansfield; 30 II; 1909
Kennedy; 32 II; 1910
Documentation:
Wedmore, Frederick. 1899. Whistler's etchings; a study and a catalogue.London?: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.
Accession:
Object Number: P.2072-R
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 10125; input: 2000-07-20; modified: 2013-05-10)
Permanent
Identifier:
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