Seymour Standing under a Tree, 1859

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 13.34 x 9.53 cm (5 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)

sheet: 19.69 x 12.7 cm (7 3/4 x 5 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 30, state i/iii

Accession Number

1949.5.527

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate lower right: Whistler.

Provenance

Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York (Lugt 1342); Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1949, lot 100); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Mansfield, Howard
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Whittemore, Harris

Exhibition History

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 31, i/iii.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 30, state i/iii.