Firelight: Joseph Pennell (No. 1)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler1896

Details

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

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