M207: Nocturne: Furnace
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M207
- People
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
- Title
- Nocturne: Furnace
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Venice, A Series of Twenty-Six Etchings, 1886 (Second Venice Set)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1879 - 1880
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/303703
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint printed with considerable plate tone in brownish-black ink on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- cut to plate: 17 x 23.3 cm (6 11/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: butterfly tab; in plate: butterfly insignia
- inscription: pendant tab, bottom edge at left, graphite: [butterfly] imp. [imprimé]
- inscription: at left on building, etched: [butterfly]
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collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 207 [Lugt 936]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Mrs. Walter Yates.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Glasgow vi/xii
- Standard Reference Number
- Kennedy 213, Glasgow 208
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Walter Yates
- Accession Year
- 1911
- Object Number
- M207
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
Exhibition History
- Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #1: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/04/2009 - 10/04/2009
Subjects and Contexts
- Collection Highlights
- Google Art Project
Verification Level
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