Nocturne
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1878
Lithotint on heavy wove paper
Image: 6 3/4 × 10 1/4 in. (17.1 × 26 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 1/16 in. (29.2 × 40.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade
PR.950.21.47
Printer
Thomas Way and Son, London
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Whistler; signed, in plate, lower right: butterfly device
Exhibition History
James McNeill Whistler: Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hamsphire, January 9-March 13, 1988.
Provenance
Alfred Byers Wade (1874-1949) Collection; to his wife, Helena Mein Wade (1878-1966), New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949; given to present collection, 1950.
Catalogue Raisonne
T. R. Way, The Lithographs by Whistler, New York, 1914, no. 5. M. Levy, Whistler Lithographs: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne, London, 1975, nos. 10 and 11. The Art Institute of Chicago in association with The Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, The Lithogra
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