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Turkeys (The "Second Venice Set")
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American (active in England), 1834–1903)
1879–80
Medium/Technique
Etching, printed in brown ink
Dimensions
Platemark: 20.8 x 13.3 cm (8 3/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 21.4 x 13.3 cm (8 7/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 21.4 x 13.3 cm (8 7/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Lee M. Friedman Fund
Accession Number66.961
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kennedy 199, second state of two
DescriptionButterfly monogram at lower left on plate. Trimmed to platemark and signed on tab with pencil with butterfly
Marks
Verso lower left brown ink -- mark of Otto Gerstenberg, Lugt 2785
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 $300. (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. 310, cat. no. 2014.
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. 310, cat. no. 2014.