The Toilet / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.414
- Title
- The Toilet
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- lithotint, with scraping and incising, heightened with black and white crayon on wove paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1878
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- On the stone, l.l.: Butterfly monogram Notation, in pencil, on mat: Touched proof
- Dimensions
- 30 cm x 20.5 cm (11 13/16 in. x 8 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- A woman in a dress with long sleeves and a fitted bodice, long skirts and train that wraps across the figure to the left, and holding a fan stands against an undifferentiated background. Her figures is turned in a 3/4 pose, although her face is seen in profile.
- Subject Matter
- Drawn on the same stone as "Early Morning", this view of Maud Franklin was published in the periodical "Piccadilly" in July of 1878.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 873 x 1411
- File Size
- 167 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.414
- Link to this Item
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"The Toilet; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.414/1954_1.414.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 05, 2024.
