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Firelight: Joseph Pennell

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Artwork Details

Firelight: Joseph Pennell
1896
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
transfer lithograph on laid paper
13 7/8 in. x 10 in. ( 35.2 cm x 25.4 cm )
Museum Purchase
1978/1.166

Description

Subject Matter:

Whistler drew this portrait of his friend and biographer, the American artist Joseph Pennell, to serve as a frontispiece for the upcoming book on lithography that Pennell and his wife Elizabeth Robins Pennell were writing.

Physical Description:

A bearded man, seen at some distance, is seated with legs crossed in an armchair with his hands behind his head.

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