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Maker(s):

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill; printmaker; American artist, 1834-1903
Delâtre; printer

Name:

print

Date:

1858
Published in 1858

Production
Place (legacy):

Colmar, Paris, printer, city

Production
Note(s):

Title to "Twelve Etchings from Nature" (The French Set).
Only state

Technique:

etching

Material(s):

black carbon ink; medium
wove paper; support

Dimension(s):

height, plate, 111, mm
width, plate, 145, mm
height, sheet, 130, mm
width, sheet, 162, mm

Acquisition:

given; 1954-10; Knowles, Guy John Fenton

Inscription(s):

title; image upper right; printed; Douze / Eaux Fortes / d'après Nature / par / James Whistler; words read right to left
address; image upper left; printed; Imp. Delâtre. Rue St. Jacques. 171. Paris. Nov. 1858
dedication; image lower centre; printed; A / Mon viel Ami Seymour Haden.

Alternative
Number(s):

Wedmore (Whistler); 20; 1899
Mansfield; 25; 1909
Kennedy; 25; 1910

Exhibition(s):

Exhibition of works of art, given and bequeathed by the late G.J.F. Knowles. 1959-10-19 - 1960-01-31
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)

Etchings by James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler. 1971-03 - 1971-04
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)

Documentation:

Wedmore, Frederick. 1899. Whistler's etchings; a study and a catalogue.London?: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.

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Accession:

Object Number: P.276-1954
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 10257; input: 2000-07-21; modified: 2012-06-28)

Permanent
Identifier:

http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/10257