The Kitchen

James Abbott McNeill Whistlerca. 1858

Details

Title: The Kitchen
Creator: James McNeill Whistler
Date Created: ca. 1858
Subject Keywords: genre, labor
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in pencil, lower right: butterfly monogram; inscribed in plate, lower right: “Whistler/Imp. Delâtre. Rue St. Jacques. 171”
Set or Series Title: Twelve Etchings from Nature (The French Set)
Print State: Second of three 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), 1952
Materials & Techniques: Etching and drypoint printed in brown ink on buff chine collé
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Paris edition, published 1858. From the set “Twelve Etchings from Nature,” known as the “French Set,” published in 1858. In 1885 the Fine Art Society published 50 impressions of state iii/iii, printed and signed by Whistler.
Dimensions: 1903
Bibliography: Kennedy 24 ii/iii
Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
Accession Number: 1952.D3.6a

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