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Where this page got its records
472 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
281 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 12 matching records exist across the two collections.
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Bearded Man in Soldier's Cap (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1854–55 · Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Hooded Male Head (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1854–55 · Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Hooded Male Head (from Sketches on The Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1854–55 · Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Mathmatical Computaions; Sketch of a Steer; Partial Unidentified Text (from Sketchbook)
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1854–55 · Brown and black ink and graphite on dark off-white-tan wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Old Woman and Child in Oval (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1854–55 · Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Two Female Heads and Standing Figure (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1854–55 · Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is an irregular fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Two Female Heads and Standing Figure (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1854–55 · Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Unidentified Sketch (from Whistler Album)
Unrecorded maker
1854–55 · Graphite on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Unidentified Sketch, Curvilinear in Form (from Whistler Album)
Unrecorded maker
1854–55 · Graphite on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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View of a Coast Line (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1854–55 · Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1858 · Etching on tan chine on white wove paper (chine collé); third state of four (Glasgow)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Album containing prints clipped from American and British periodicals
Illman and Sons (d. 1900)
1815–60 · Hand-colored etching, engraving, lithograph, mezzotint
In copyright
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