Firelight: Joseph Pennell / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- 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.
- 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
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1978-sl-1.166/1978_1.166.jpg
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"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.