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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R225NA
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Chelsea Bridge and Church
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects, 1871
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1871
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/250101

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed with plate tone around the edges of the plate in black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 10.2 x 17 cm (4 x 6 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: [butterfly]
  • inscription: lower sheet margin to right of center, just below the plate mark, graphite: [butterfly] imp.
  • inscription: verso, lower margin, left of center, graphite, handwritten: Chelsea Bridge + Church
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner of plate, graphite: W
  • watermark: 1814
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp (very pale) with accession number written in graphite:
    JOHN WITT RANDALL COLL. / HARVARD COLLEGE / no. 225 [number on a dotted line] [Lugt 2130]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow vii/vii
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 95; Glasgow 102

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, John Witt Randall Fund
Object Number
R225NA
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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