About the Artwork
Jubilee Place
1887
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
American
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Etching
Overall: 5 1/2 × 8 9/16 inches (14 × 21.8 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Museum Purchase, Dexter M Ferry, Jr. Fund
2018.5
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate,upper left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram; Signed, in graphite, below the plate line, lower right, with Whistler's butterfly monogram, followed by the abbreviation "imp."
Dry stamp, JHH, [Joseph Hutchinson Hutchinson Lugt 2921] Stamp, in blue, verso, on reverse of the tab: HM in a circle [Howard Mansfield. Lugt 1342] Stamp, in red, verso, HM in a circle [Howard Mansfield. Lugt 1342] Stamp, in black, verso, HW [Harris Whittemore. Lugt 1384a.
Provenance
The ArtistNovember 17, 1888, or February 16, 1889, sold by the artist, for £10.10.0;
(Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells, London, England);
Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson [ca. 1829-1891] (London, England);
March 3, 1892, sold by (Sotheby’s, Wilkinson, & Hodge, London, England) estate of Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson, lot 337, for £4.10.0;
(Deprez & Gutenkunst, London, England);
Howard Mansfield [1849-1938] (New York, New York, USA);
1919 (Arthur H. Hahlo & Co., New York, New York, USA);
1919, Harris Whittemore [1862-1927] (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA);
By descent in the Whittemore family;
October 14, 1952, sold by (Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, USA) auction of Whistler etchings and liographs from the estate of Harris Whittemore, lot 92, for $35.00.
Donald Whittemore;
(Susan Schulman Printseller, New York, New York, USA);
2018-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Jubilee Place, 1887, etching. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Dexter M Ferry, Jr. Fund, 2018.5.
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