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Lobster Pots (The "Second Venice Set")
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American (active in England), 1834–1903)
about 1880–81
Medium/Technique
Etching, printed in dark brown ink
Dimensions
Platemark: 11.7 x 20.0 cm (4 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 12.2 x 20.2 cm (4 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 12.2 x 20.2 cm (4 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Lee M. Friedman Fund
Accession Number66.962
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kennedy 235, first state of three
DescriptionTrimmed to plate mark and signed on tab with butterfly in pencil. Another butterfly on the plate at lower right
DB or OB collector's mark with classical figure above
DB or OB collector's mark with classical figure above
Marks
Verso bottom center brown ink -- mark of Otto Gerstenberg, Lugt 2785
InscriptionsInscribed in lower right: Selsea Bill
ProvenanceOtto Gerstenberg (b. 1848 - d. 1935; Lugt 2785), Berlin; 1935, by inheritance to his daughter, Margarethe Scharf (b. 1889 - d. 1961), Berlin; 1943, stored by Margarethe Scharf at Oberstdorf, Allgäu, Germany where it was kept for the duration of World War II [see note]; 1961, by descent to Margarethe's son, Dieter Scharf, Hamburg. 1966, sold by R.E. Lewis, Inc., San Francisco, to the MFA for $200. (Accession Date: December 14, 1966)
NOTE: See Julietta Scharf and Hanna Strzoda with Janina Dahlmanns, Die Historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg, 2 vols. (Ostfildern, 2012), vol. 1, pp. 80-81 and vol. 2, p. 311, cat. no. 2023.
NOTE: See Julietta Scharf and Hanna Strzoda with Janina Dahlmanns, Die Historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg, 2 vols. (Ostfildern, 2012), vol. 1, pp. 80-81 and vol. 2, p. 311, cat. no. 2023.