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  • Title: Afternoon Tea
  • Creator: James McNeill Whistler
  • Date Created: ca. 1893-1894
  • Subject Keywords: afternoon, genre, tea, times of day
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in pencil (in artist’s hand?), lower right: butterfly monogram; inscribed in image, center right: butterfly monogram
  • Object Type: Prints, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947
  • Materials & Techniques: Transfer lithograph on heavyweight Japan laid paper
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Edition: One of a few impressions printed in Paris, ca. 1894 (possibly by La Mercier); 100 impressions were published by Vollard in L''Album d''estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard (Paris, 1897), printed on Japan Paper, signed and numbered in pencil by August Clot.
  • Dimensions: 1903
  • Bibliography: Way 147; Levy 114; Johnson, Vollard, 203
  • Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
  • Accession Number: 1947.D1.263

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