The Boy (Charlie Hanson), c. 1873/1875

Not on View

drypoint on laid paper

plate: 22.23 × 14.61 cm (8 3/4 × 5 3/4 in.)

sheet: 33.34 × 20.64 cm (13 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

Kennedy 1910, no. 135

1943.3.8472

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: K. 135 VI The Boy; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: e.15091

stamped center verso in black ink: LJR and National Gallery of Art / LJR

purchased by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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

2022: The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2022, no. 30.

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 135, vi/viii.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 145, vi//viii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk