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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
1887,1216.34.10
Title
Object:
Axenfeld
Description
Seated man with a pointed beard, three-quarter length; cancelled plate. 1860. Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
James McNeill Whistler
School/style
American
Production date
1860
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
226 millimetres
Width:
153 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See comment for 1887,1216.34.1. For a first and third state of this print, see: 1872,0713.414 and 1872,0713.415. Martin Hopkinson refers to the Anderson Rose sale catalogue as evidence that the plate had been cancelled by November 1872 (email 21 July 2009).
Bibliographic references
Kennedy 1910 / The Etched Work of Whistler
(64)
MacDonald et al 2012 / James McNeill Whistler, the etchings, a catalogue raisonné
(68.VI cancelled)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Axenfeld
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau
Acquisition date
1887
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1887,1216.34.10