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Long Lagoon

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (printmaker)

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Title/s

Long Lagoon

Maker/s

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

Category

print

Name

print

School/Style

British

Production Notes

First state, first proof

Technique/s

etching

Material/s

black carbon ink (medium)
paper (support)

Dimensions

height: 152 mm
width: 225 mm

Date

1879 to 1880

Provenance

bequeathed: Lewis, Katherine Elizabeth 1961-07 (Prints bequeathed by Lewis, Katherine Elizabeth)
Given by Whistler to Lady Elizabeth Lewis (Mrs George Lewis) (1844-1931); by gift or descent to her daughter Katharine Elizabeth Lewis (1878-1961)

Inscriptions/Marks

  1. Position: lower left
    Type: signature
    Method: graphite
    Content: [monogram] imp.
  2. Position: lower left
    Type: edition
    Method: graphite
    Content: 1st. proof.

Standard print ref/s

Wedmore (Whistler) 169
Wedmore, Frederick
 (1899) Whistler's etchings; a study and a catalogue , London? : P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.

Mansfield 200 I
Mansfield, Howard
 (1909) A descriptive catalogue of the etchings and dry-points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler , Chicago : Caxton Club

Kennedy 203 I
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.141-1961 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 10307; Input Date: 2000-07-24 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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