The Japanese Dress

ca. 1888-1890

Details

Title: The Japanese Dress
Date Created: ca. 1888-1890
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed, lower left; butterfly monogram; inscribed in artist’s hand in pencil, right: “2 Lindsey Houses, Chelsea”
Object Type: Drawings, works of art
Object Link: http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/Obj14589
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1952
Materials & Techniques: Pencil, black chalk, and pastel on brown paper laid down on card
Keywords: clothing and dress, fashion, Japonisme
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Date previously thought to be ca. 1867–1873; revised according to Tate catalogue 1994
Dimensions: Sheet dimensions: 268 mm x 181 mm (10.55 in. x 7.13 in.).
Bibliography: Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler, Women & Fashion (New York: Frick Collection; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), cat. no. 167, p. 175; Cory, cat. no. 113, pp. 43–44, 57; R. Dorment & M. MacDonald, Whistler (London: Tate Gallery), cat. no. 181, color reproduction p. 260; see also Deanna Marohn Bendix, Diabolical Designs (Smithsonian Institution, 1995), chapter four, with reproduction of related drawing as fig. 43, p. 110; Whistler and American Print Collectors, 49.
Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
Accession Number: 1952.D1.10

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