The Beggars, from The First Venice Set
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1879-1880
Etching and drypoint on laid paper
Plate: 11 15/16 × 8 1/4 in. (30.3 × 21 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/8 × 8 1/4 in. (30.8 × 21 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade
PR.950.21.45
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower left: butterfly device; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite: FVOX; blue stamp TRX? Watermark: 1814
Course History
English 52.19, Poverty in American Literature: 1861-1925, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2023
English 52.19, Poverty in American LIterature: 1861-1925, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1996.
James McNeill Whistler: Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 13, 1988.
Treasures from the Print Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 3-August 17, 1980.
Whistler, Venice, and the American Etching Revival (in conjunction with Canaletto's Vedute Prints: An Exhibition in Honor of Adolf Weil, Jr.), Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 1-December 6, 2015.
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
E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, San Francisco, 1978, no. 194. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 191.
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