Whistler's Mother

Object Details

Edition/State: First
Label: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G103 state 1 of 1.
Provenance: Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938), England [1]; To 1903; Obach & Co., London, to 1903 [2]; From 1903 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1903 [3]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]; Notes:; [1] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.; [2] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Voucher No. 11, December 1903, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.; [3] See note 2.; [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History: Whistler and the Leylands (July 3, 1998 to June 6, 1999); Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler (March 23, 1925 to March 24, 1930); Special Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (January 14, 1924 to February 18, 1924)
Previous custodian or owner: Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938); Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (C.L. Freer source); Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

ca. 1870-1873

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Topic: drypoint; portrait; woman; family; United States; American Art; Charles Lang Freer collection; cancelled plate

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3fbaa431d-be2d-4045-a991-fd6f88f20451