Photograph, Print, or Drawing[Self-portrait of Whistler]
Personal name
Main title
- [Self-portrait of Whistler] [graphic].
Published/Created
- [between 1898 and 1900]
Links
Links
- digital file from original item http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.04695 opens in a new window
- digital file from color film copy transparency http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04661 opens in a new window
- digital file from b&w film copy neg. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a16950 opens in a new window
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Description
- 1 drawing : pen and brown ink ; sheet 11.2 x 8.8 cm.
Rights advisory
- No known restrictions on publication.
LC classification
- DRWG/MA, no. 255
Local shelving no.
- DRWG/MA - Whistler, no. 10 (former call number)
Summary
- Study for self-portrait, half-length, facing slightly right, with coat drapped over shoulder.
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Notes
- Signed in ink with butterfly.
- Title from catalogue raisonneĢ.
- On back with fragment of a signed letter: [Whis]tler's acknowledgements; [Dai]ly Mail [p]aralized with gratitude [a]t the delicacy and kind ... you chew the food ... readers-of course you; Pray receive my compliments, J. McNeill Whistler.
- In the 1905 Memorial Exhibition catalogue, Pennell stated this was a study for the full length self-portrait exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, 1900; in 1908 Pennell stated this was a study for "Brown and Gold," (National Gallery of Art, Washington), ca. 1896-1898.
- Cream laid paper; no watermark.
- Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
- Exhibited: Library of Congress, "Pennell Legacy," 1983.
- Exhibited: Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, #3130, 1984.
- Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.
References
- James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonneĢ / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1533 (p. 553)
Reproduction no./Source
- LC-DIG-ds-04695 DLC (digital file from original item)
- LC-USZC4-4661 DLC (color film copy transparency)
- LC-USZ62-14689 DLC (b&w film copy neg.)
Acquisition source
- Gift; E. R. & J. Pennell; 1917.
LCCN
- 96511326
Other system no.
- (DLC)11675959
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print opens in a new window
Type of material
- Photograph, Print, or Drawing
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