San Biagio
date: label: Date
content: 1879-1880
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Edition/State
content: 4, 3
label: Label
content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G237 state 3 of 17.
label: Provenance
content: Queen Victoria (1819-1901) (reigned 1837-1901), United Kingdom [1]
label: Provenance
content: King Edward VII (1841-1910) (reigned 1901-1910), United Kingdom [2]
label: Provenance
content: To 1906
label: Provenance
content: Obach & Co., London, to 1906 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1906 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1906 [4]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [5]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] According to Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record: "On the back of the print: a. The oval stamp of Queen Victoria (VR);
label: Provenance
content: b. (In Mr. Freer's writing) From the Queen's collection."
label: Provenance
content: [2] According to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record, which states: "From King Edward's Collection."
label: Provenance
content: [3] See List of Whistler Purchases Since Making Up the Smithsonian Inventory, pg. 2, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [4] See note 3.
label: Provenance
content: [5] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: King Edward VII (1841-1910)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: etching (printing process)
label: Topic
content: water
label: Topic
content: boat
label: Topic
content: architecture
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: balcony
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1906.238
objectType: label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching; ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 20.7 x 30.4 cm (8 1/8 x 11 15/16 in)