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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903

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1879

Etching on heavy wove paper

Plate: 5 1/4 × 8 1/8 in. (13.3 × 20.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alden Guild, Class of 1952

PR.979.50

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in plate, lower right: butterfly; inscribed: Chelsea as published by the Fine Society in 1879, printed by J.S. Virtue and Co., Ltd., London

Exhibition History

James McNeil Whistler: Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 13, 1988.

Provenance

Alden Guild (1929-2017), Montpelier, Vermont; given to the present collection, 1979.

Catalogue Raisonne

E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910, no. 182 H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 179.

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