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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M207
People
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
print
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
  • 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]
  • 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
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
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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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