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The Beggars
James Abbott McNeill Whistlerca. 1880
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Beggars
- Creator: James McNeill Whistler
- Date Created: ca. 1880
- Subject Keywords: agriculture, beggars, genre, labor
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in pencil on tab, lower left: butterfly monogram and “imp.”; inscribed, upper left: faint butterfly monogram as in Kennedy; inscribed in pencil on verso, lower right: “The Beggars” and butterfly monogram
- Set or Series Title: Venice, Whistler, Twelve Etchings (The First Venice Set)
- Print State: Ninth of nine 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), 1938
- Materials & Techniques: Etching and drypoint printed in brown ink on thin laid paper
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: From the set “Venice, Whistler, Twelve Etchings,” known as the “First Venice Set,” published by the Fine Art Society, London, 1880
- Dimensions: 1903
- Bibliography: Kennedy 194 ix/ix
- Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
- Accession Number: 1938.D1.44
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