James McNeill Whistler

1874

Not on view

Percy Thomas's print is based on a Whistler self-portrait, "Arrangement in Grey: Portrait of the Painter," ca. 1872 (Detroit Institute of Arts). The print was created as a frontispiece for the first catalogue of Whister's etchings, published in London in 1874 by the etcher's brother, Ralph Thomas. Wearing a smock and wide brimmed hat, the subject holds two brushes and is identified by his butterfly mark perched on the edge of the dado behind his shoulder. An inscription at upper right, from Whistler to Samuel P. Avery, Sr., relates this impression to the American edition of the catalogue, that Avery published in New York.

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Provenance

Title: James McNeill Whistler
Etcher: Percy Thomas (British, London 1846–1922 London)
Artist: After James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)
Sitter: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)
Date: 1874
Medium: Etching; early state (before addition of artist's signature lower left center)
Dimensions: plate: 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 in. (13 x 19.7 cm)
sheet: 12 3/16 x 8 1/2 in. (31 x 21.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Amy and Emma Welcher and Alice Welcher Erickson, 1967
Object Number: 67.844.4
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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