Hurlingham, 1879

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 13.81 × 20 cm (5 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

sheet: 20.64 × 27.94 cm (8 1/8 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 184, state iv/iv

Accession Number

2015.19.1489

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: K16 Hurlingham; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 622; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: K 16. Hurlingham-; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 18

Marks and Labels

stamped lower left verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 30

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 46, repro

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 181.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 184, iv/iv. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk