About the Artwork
Charing Cross Bridge
1887 or 1888
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
American
Unknown
Etching
Plate: 5 1/16 × 3 3/4 inches (12.9 × 9.6 cm) Sheet: 5 1/8 × 3 3/4 inches (13 × 9.6 cm)
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Museum Purchase, funds from Nena Cunningham Dahling in honor of Mary M. Roby, with additional funds from Mary M. Roby
2019.103
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Markings
Signed, in plate, center right, with Whistler's butterfly monogram; signed, in graphite, below the plate line, lower rightt, with Whistler's butterfly monogram, followed by the abbreviation "imp."
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Stamp, in blue, verso, HM in circle [Howard Mansfield. Lugt 1342] Stamp, in black, verso, HW [Harris Whittemore. Lugt 1384a. See also Lugt 1342]
Provenance
Howard Mansfield [1849-1938] (New York, New York, USA)
1919 (Arthur H. Hahlo & Co., New York, New York, USA)
1919, purchased by Harris Whittemore [1862-1927] (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA)
by descent
October 14, 1952, sold by (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, USA) auction of Whistler etchings and lithographs from the estate of Harris Whittemore, sold by order of the J. H. Whittemore Company, lot 119, one of a two-etching lot that sold for $65.00. Purchased by a member of the Whittemore family by descent to Thyrza S. Whittemore [b.1951] (Middlebury, Connecticut, USA)
consigned to (Susan Schulman Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York, USA)
2019-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Charing Cross Bridge, 1887 or 1888, etching. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, funds from Nena Cunningham Dahling in honor of Mary M. Roby, with additional funds from Mary M. Roby, 2019.103.
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