Turkeys
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1879-1880
Etching and drypoint mounted on board
Plate: 8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.3 × 13 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade
PR.950.21.50
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Signed, lower left, in graphite, in plate: butterfly device
Exhibition History
James McNeill Whistler: Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 13, 1988.
19th Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 12-March 25, 1979.
Provenance
Theobald and Theodore De Witt Collections; 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
E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, San Francisco, 1978, no. 199. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 196.
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