The Penny Boat, 1859

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in dark brown on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 8.57 x 20.64 cm (3 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 71, state ii/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.8443

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on tab butterfly: imp.

Provenance

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394), probably before 1902. (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, 1903, stock no. a 37246). (Knoedler & Co., New York (stock no. MK 32555); Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 67, ii/ii.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012: no. 71, state ii/ii.