The Beach, Ostend
date: label: Date
content: 1887
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: 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 G353 state 1 of 1.
label: Provenance
content: From at least 1906 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), from at least 1906 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, pg. 97, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Also, according to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record: "No further details of purchase having been recorded, the etching was given a registration number for the year 1906, when the Smithsonian Inventory was printed."
label: Provenance
content: [2] 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: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: etching (printing process)
label: Topic
content: playing
label: Topic
content: child
label: Topic
content: woman
label: Topic
content: beach
label: Topic
content: umbrella
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
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: F1906.128
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: 8.1 x 18.2 cm (3 3/16 x 7 3/16 in)