Sketching, No. 1

James Abbott McNeill Whistler1861

Details

Title: Sketching, No. 1
Creator: James McNeill Whistler
Date Created: 1861
Subject Keywords: art, artists, sketching
Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in plate, lower right: “Whistler”; inscribed in pencil in unknown hand on bottom margin: “Proof by Day’s man Goulding”; inscribed in pencil on verso: “the first trial proof from the plate /HHB yx.”
Print State: First of four 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. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947
Materials & Techniques: Etching on heavyweight wove paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Published in Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club (London: Day & Son, 1862)
Dimensions: 1903
Bibliography: Kennedy 86 i/iv; Kennedy records a deep platemark for K. 86 iv/iv
Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
Accession Number: 1947.D1.302

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