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James McNeill Whistler - [The forge] [Smiths, Ajaccio].
Summary
Drawings show (front) view through arched doorway of two men standing at an anvil, small table on left at doorway, and (back) view of two men working at an anvil.
Titles from catalogue raisonné.
Front signed in pencil with butterfly monogram.
Cream wove paper, with watermark of a crown (incomplete).
Purchase; Pennell family and other?; 1921-1936.
Preliminary drawings for etching with the title: The flaming forge, Ajaccio.
James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1679 (p. 603)
Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.
Exhibited: Library of Congress, "Pennell Legacy," 1983.
Exhibited: Art Institute of Chicago, "Songs on stone : James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography," 1998.
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