Inscription
[Whistler's butterfly signature] upper right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp." lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "Battersea Dawn" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "k.155I" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "Very rare" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "c.652)" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "1" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "c34603 / asx-" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "w.125" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "1er" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. "HB" (Henry H. Benedict collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1298).
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 34603). Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York, (Lugt 1298). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
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. 155, i/iv.
- 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. 174, state i/v.
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