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Annie

Print
1858 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Whistler (maker)
Place of origin
Paris (printed and published)

'Annie', one of the 'Twelve Etchings from Nature', by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, also called 'The French Set'. 1858. Published in London by J. A. Whistler at 62 Sloane Street and in Paris at Imprimerie Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques 171. Signed in plate by the artist and lettered bottom right ‘Imp. Delâtre, Rue St Jacques 171’. Portrait of a young girl, standing in three-quarter profile, holding the hem of her dress up with one hand.

Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Annie (generic title)
  • Twelve Etchings from Nature (series title)
  • The French Set (series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching on India paper
Printing Ink
India Paper
Etching
Brief description
Etching by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 'Annie' from 'Twelve Etchings from Nature' or 'The French Set'; Paris, 1858. 76078.
Physical description
'Annie', one of the 'Twelve Etchings from Nature', by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, also called 'The French Set'. 1858. Published in London by J. A. Whistler at 62 Sloane Street and in Paris at Imprimerie Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques 171. Signed in plate by the artist and lettered bottom right ‘Imp. Delâtre, Rue St Jacques 171’. Portrait of a young girl, standing in three-quarter profile, holding the hem of her dress up with one hand.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.3cm
  • Width: 7.7cm
Style
Realism
Marks and inscriptions
  • ‘Whistler’

    Note
    Signed in plate bottom left

  • ‘Imp. Delâtre, Rue St Jacques 171’

    Note
    Lettered bottom right

Subject depicted
Portraits
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Wedmore, Frederick. Whistler's Etchings, A Study and a Catalogue. London: Colnaghi & Co, 1899. No.15.
  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978. No. 10.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
19812

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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