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Firelight: Joseph Pennell (No. 1)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler1896

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

  • Title: Firelight: Joseph Pennell (No. 1)
  • Creator: James McNeill Whistler
  • Date Created: 1896
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in image, left: 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. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds in honor of Arthur S. Wensinger (Marcus L. Taft Professor of German, Emeritus), 1982
  • Materials & Techniques: Transfer lithograph on Fortuna laid paper. Watermark: Figure with scarf standing on ball above pedestal; similar to Briquet 7559, reversed, without lions or initials HH in ball; see W. 82 (DAC) for fragment figure with scarf
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Edition: 15 were printed by Way; published in Pennell, Lithography and Lithographers (New York, 1898), of which the DAC has a 1915 copy with photolithograph.
  • Dimensions: 1903
  • Bibliography: Way 104; Levy 152
  • Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
  • Accession Number: 1982.11.1
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

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