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Nocturne Furnace
James Abbott McNeill Whistlerca. 1880
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Nocturne Furnace
- Creator: James McNeill Whistler
- Date Created: ca. 1880
- Subject Keywords: Italy, Venice
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in pencil on tab, lower left: butterfly monogram and “imp.”; inscribed in plate, lower center: butterfly monogram; inscribed in pencil on verso: “Unique trial proof before publishd state/very scarce/Furnace Nocturne”
- Set or Series Title: A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (The Second Venice Set)
- Print State: Third of eight states
- 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. Bequest of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1953
- Materials & Techniques: Etching and drypoint printed in brown ink on laid paper. Watermark: VI
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: From the set "A Set of Twenty-six Etchings," known as the "Second Venice Set," published by Dowdeswell in 1886
- Dimensions: 1903
- Bibliography: Kennedy 213 iii/viii; original DAC catalog card has: “Reproduced from this (HLQ) from Keppel to H.L.Q. Wunderlich and CO. 66705”
- Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
- Accession Number: 1953.D1.7
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