Image
Description
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.422
- Title
- Reading
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- lithograph with scraping on china paper, laid down on white wove paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1879
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- On the stone, to r. of figure: Butterfly monogram Signed, in pencil, on mount, l.l.: Whistler & Butterfly monogram.
- Dimensions
- 54.9 cm x 38 cm (21 5/8 in. x 14 15/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
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Print
- Physical Description
- A seated woman in a long dress and hat sits in profie reading. Her body is positioned looking towards the left. Behind the figure is broad diagonal hatching lines that create a sense of space while leaving the specific setting undescribed. At the lower right is a "butterfly" signature of the artist.
- Subject Matter
- Whistler's model Maud Franklin is seen here reading. This lithograph was included in the portfolio "Notes", printed 1887 although the work was drawn in 1879.
- Primary Keywords
- reading
- seated
- Secondary Keywords
- figures
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- physical activities
- physical activities by general context
- Rights
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Collection Access
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- In public portfolios
- Ink and realisms items: 392, owner: akgamble dchoberk mdegroo kholihan mstang eveba rnhuff hanmcm lgialane ralomi apassiak
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- Stamps School Porfolio Preview items: 18, owner: preister
System Metadata
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Image Size
- 887 x 1167
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Record
- 1954/1.422
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Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
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