About the Artwork
Reading
1879, printed 1887
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Artist) American, 1834 - 1903 Thomas Way and Son (Printer) English, active c.1878 - 1896 Boussod, Valadon and Co. (Publisher) French, founded 1884
Lithograph printed in black ink on cream chine collé mounted on off-white wove paper
Image: 6 1/8 × 5 1/4 inches (15.6 × 13.3 cm) Sheet: 16 1/2 × 13 1/8 inches (41.9 × 33.3 cm) Chine: 8 1/4 × 6 3/8 inches (21 × 16.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
30.49
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Markings
Signed on stone, lower right: [Whistler's butterfly device] In pencil, lower left of mount: [Whistler's butterfly device]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, within the area of the chine, lower left: a82951 [above erasures or very pale numbers] Lower right: CO
Provenance
1930, (Gordon Galleries, 37 Adams Avenue East, Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Reading, 1879, printed 1887, lithograph printed in black ink on cream chine collé mounted on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.49.
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