Nocturne
1878/1887
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903
Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph in black with blue chine collé on wove paper
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Credit Line
Gift of the Fuller Foundation, Inc. and Print Purchase Fund (R. Horace Gallatin)
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Dimensions
image: 17.1 x 26 cm (6 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
sheet: 34.4 x 50.3 cm (13 9/16 x 19 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1992.46.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 8, ii/ii
Associated Artworks
See all 4 artworks
Reading
James McNeill Whistler
1879
Victoria Club
James McNeill Whistler
1879
Old Battersea Bridge
James McNeill Whistler
1879
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Nesta Spink, Ann Arbor, MI); purchase and exchange 1992, NGA
Associated Names
Bibliography
1896
Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 5.
1998
Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 63-66, no. 8, ii/ii.
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 1/5
Wikidata ID
Q75119988