The Little Lagoon, from The First Venice Set
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1879-1880
Etching and drypoint on Japan paper
Overall: 8 7/8 × 6 in. (22.5 × 15.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alden Guild, Class of 1952
PR.979.49
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate: butterfly device; stamped, on reverse: 1897
Provenance
Alden Guild (1929-2017), Montpelier, Vermont; given to the present collection, 1979.
Catalogue Raisonne
E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, San Francisco, 1978, no. 186ii. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 183.
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