Cottage Door / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.395
- Title
- Cottage Door
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint, printed in dark brown ink on laid paper, trimmed to platemark
- Object Creation Date
- 1886
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- On the plate, u.l.: Butterfly monogram Signed, in pencil, on tab: Butterfly monogram and imp. Collector's mark: Royal Library, Windsor Castle. Lugt 2535.
- Dimensions
- 6.7 cm x 9.9 cm (2 5/8 in. x 3 7/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- intaglio print
- Physical Description
- Four girls stand in, adjacent to, or in front of a dark open doorway. The doorway is cropped at the top, focussing on the figures. To the right is the partial view of a window.
- Subject Matter
- During the 1880s, Whistler focused on depicting street-scapes, both views of shop fronts and facades and works, such as this, which seem to capture a smaller fragment of that larger subject. Often, Whistler filled the image with architecture, eliminating the sky and building the composition on the visual structure provided by windows and doorways. Here three girls lounge before a darkened open doorway. This site has been indentified by the Glasgow catalogue raisonné as being in Cumberland in north-west England that Whistler visited in August of 1886.
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1131 x 813
- File Size
- 110 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.395
- Link to this Item
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"Cottage Door; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.395/1954_1.395.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
