The Punt

James Abbott McNeill Whistler1861

Details

Title: The Punt
Creator: James McNeill Whistler
Date Created: 1861
Subject Keywords: boats, marine views
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “Whistler. 1861”; inscribed in pencil in unknown hand in margin, lower right: “Proof by Day’s Man”; inscribed and partially erased in pencil in margin, lower left: “Thursday”; inscribed, upper center: “5”; inscribed in pencil on verso: “the First trial proof from the plate/HHB/The Punt”
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 and drypoint 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 85 i/iv
Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
Accession Number: 1947.D1.282

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