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Currently not on display

James Abott McNeil Whistler

Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834 - London, 1903

The Smith's Yard

Date 1895
Materials and Techniques Transfer lithograph on paper
Size(cm) 25.8 x 18.4 (image); 29.0 x 21.1 (paper)
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil lower right margin: The Forge Whistler; on mount lower left: (157) / No. 26
Credit Line Ex-Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. Stratis/Tedeschi 1998, no. 124; M2915
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2017-0127

Provenance

Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927; private collection, Japan; deposited in NMWA, 25 January 2016, ref. no. 59; purchased by NMWA, 13 July 2017.

Bibliography

2019
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, List of New Acquisitions. p. 33.
2019
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 2915, col. repr.

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