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James McNeill Whistler

Reading, 1879/1887

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Medium

lithograph in black with chine collé on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 15.5 × 13 cm (6 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.)

sheet: 46 × 36.3 cm (18 1/8 × 14 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 17, iv/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.8673

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Provenance

Purchased April 3, 1930 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 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

1896: Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 13.

1998: Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 92-96, no. 17, iv/iv.

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