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Chelsea Rags

James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Way and Son

Chelsea Rags

1887

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James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Way and Son

Chelsea Rags

1887

Physical Qualities Crayon transfer lithograph, Sheet: 240 × 178 mm. (9 7/16 × 7 in.) Image: 181 × 160 mm. (7 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.8322
Most likely from the edition published in the journal "The Albermarle" in January 1892, with the printed inscription trimmed away.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Way, Thomas R. The Lithographs by Whistler (New York: Kennedy & Co., 1914), p. 7, #22.

Levy, Mervyn. Whistler Lithographs: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné (London: Jupiter Books, 1975), #35.

Stratis, Harriet K. and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), p. 130, #26.

Inscribed: Signed in matrix: middle right "[butterfly]"

Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

American, 1834-1903
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Thomas Way and Son

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