The Tall Bridge
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1878
Lithotint on heavy wove paper
1/12
Sheet: 12 3/8 × 7 7/16 in. (31.4 × 18.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade
PR.950.21.44
Printer
Thomas Way and Son, London
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in stone, near left center: butterfly device
Exhibition History
James McNeill Whistler: Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 13, 1988.
Prints from the Hood Museum Collection, Friends Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1985-January 12, 1986.
Provenance
Alfred Byers Wade (1874-1949) Collection; to his wife, Helena Mein Wade (1878-1966), New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949; given to present collection, 1950.
Catalogue Raisonne
T. R. Way, The Lithographs by Whistler, New York, 1914, no. 9. M. Levy, Whistler Lithographs: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne, London, 1975, no. 19. The Art Institute of Chicago in association with The Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, The Lithographs of
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