Firelight: Joseph Pennell / James McNeill Whistler

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Accession Number: 1978/1.166
Title: Firelight: Joseph Pennell
Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: 1834-1903
Medium and Support: transfer lithograph on laid paper
Object Creation Date: 1896
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Inscription: On the stone, u.l.: Butterfly Watermark (elaborate)
Dimensions: 35.2 cm x 25.4 cm (13 7/8 in. x 10 in.)
Century: 19th century
Physical Description: A bearded man, seen at some distance, is seated with legs crossed in an armchair with his hands behind his head.
Subject Matter: Whistler drew this portrait of his friend and biographer, the American artist Joseph Pennell, to serve as a frontispiece for the upcoming book on lithography that Pennell and his wife Elizabeth Robins Pennell were writing.
Primary Keywords: chairs; figures; males; reclining
Secondary Keywords: furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; furniture by form or function; objects we use; people and occupations; seating furniture; single seating furniture
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 987 x 1405
File Size: 102 KB
Record: 1978/1.166
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1978-sl-1.166/1978_1.166.jpg

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Full citation: "Firelight: Joseph Pennell; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1978-sl-1.166/1978_1.166.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.