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La Mère Gérard (Mother Gerard)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (printmaker)

Delâtre (printer)

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Title/s

La Mère Gérard

Twelve Etchings from Nature (series title)

Translated title

Mother Gerard

Maker/s

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (printmaker) American artist, 1834-1903

Delâtre (printer)

Category

print

Name

print

School/Style

British

Production Notes

From the series "Twelve Etchings from Nature" (The French Set). Published as "La Mère Gérard".

Fourth state

Technique/s

etching

Material/s

black carbon ink (medium)
Japanese paper (support)

Dimensions

plate height: 128 mm
plate width: 90 mm
sheet height: 326 mm
sheet width: 235 mm

Date

1858

Provenance

given: Knowles, Guy John Fenton 1954-10 (Prints given by Knowles, Guy John Fenton)

Inscriptions/Marks

  1. Position: image lower left
    Type: signature
    Method: printed
    Content: Whistler
  2. Position: image lower centre
    Type: address
    Method: printed
    Content: Imp. Delâtre. Rue St. Jacques 171.
  3. Position: sheet lower left
    Type: inscription
    Method: graphite
    Content: S/ / P/P/. J McNeil Whistler
  4. Position: sheet lower centre
    Type: title
    Method: graphite
    Content: La Mere Gerard
  5. Position: sheet lower right
    Type: inscription
    Method: graphite
    Content: Proof before letters
  6. Position: sheet lower right corner
    Type: number
    Method: graphite
    Content: 2

Standard print ref/s

Wedmore (Whistler) 9
Wedmore, Frederick
 (1899) Whistler's etchings; a study and a catalogue , London? : P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.

Mansfield 13 IV
Mansfield, Howard
 (1909) A descriptive catalogue of the etchings and dry-points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler , Chicago : Caxton Club

Kennedy 11 IV
Kennedy, Edward G.
 (1978) The etched work of Whistler , San Francisco : Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

Documentation

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

Accession Number

P.272-1954 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 10256; Input Date: 2000-07-21 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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