Details
Artist | James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834-1903 |
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Publisher | Boussod, Valadon and Co., French, founded 1884 |
Printer | Thomas Way and Son, English, active c.1878 - 1896 |
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Date | 1879, printed in 1887 |
Medium | lithograph printed in black ink on cream chine collé mounted on white wove paper |
Dimensions | Image: 7 × 5 1/2 inches (17.8 × 14 cm) Sheet (chine collé): 9 1/4 × 6 1/8 inches (23.5 × 15.6 cm) Mount: 17 3/8 × 11 3/4 inches (44.1 × 29.8 cm) |
Credit Line | City of Detroit Purchase |
Accession Number | 30.46 |
Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed | Signed, on stone, lower left: [Whistler's butterfly device] Signed, in pencil, lower left margin of the supporting sheet: Whistler | [butterfly device] [all in penciled square] |
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Inscriptions | Inscribed, in pencil, bottom right edge of the supporting sheet: Way 11. Victoria Club [erasures] 300.00 |
Provenance
1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)