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Nocturne: Palaces (The "Second Venice Set")

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American (active in England), 1834–1903)
1879–80

Medium/Technique Etching and drypoint
Dimensions Platemark: 29.5 x 20 cm (11 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 30.4 x 20.1 cm (11 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Anonymous gift
Accession Number59.818
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kennedy 202, sixth state of nine
Marks Verso bottom center brown ink -- mark of Francis Bullard, Lugt 982
Verso on tab brown ink -- mark of Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge, Lugt 394
ProvenanceBernard Buchanan MacGeorge (b. about 1845 - d. 1924; L. 394), Glasgow. Francis Bullard (b. 1862 – d. 1913; L. 982), Boston; by descent to his cousin, Ellen T. Bullard (b. 1865- d. 1959), Boston; 1959, anonymous gift from the legatees of Ellen T. Bullard to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 12, 1959)