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Afternoon Tea
James Abbott McNeill Whistlerca. 1893-1894
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- 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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