Jo, 1861

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.86 × 15.24 cm (9 × 6 in.)

sheet: 45.09 × 31.12 cm (17 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Kennedy 1910, no. 77

Accession Number

1949.5.536

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate lower right: Whistler. ('t' not crossed) / 1861.

Provenance

Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York (Lugt 1342); Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, acquired 1919 (probably through A.A. Hahlo & Col, New York); (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, lot 152); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1949; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Mansfield, Howard
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Whittemore, Harris

Exhibition History

1953: Whistler's Prints after Fifty Years, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1953.

1969: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Artmobile, 1969-1970.

2022: The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2022, no. 6.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 77.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 87, state only. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk