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James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903, American, active in Britain (from 1859), Île de la Cité, Paris, 1859
- Title:
Île de la Cité, Paris
- Date:
- 1859
- Medium:
- Etching and drypoint, printed from canceled plate on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 × 11 1/2 inches (20.3 × 29.2 cm), Image: 8 x 11 1/2 inches (20.3 x 29.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "a19715"; in graphite, lower center: "Isle de la Cité"
Lettered inside image, lower left: "Whistler- | Dec. 1859."; lower left: "Paris de la Galerie d'Ap."
Signed with graphite butterfly monogram, lower left
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Robert N. Whittemore, Yale BS 1943
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2014.22.4
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boats | bridges (built works) | buildings | carts | cathedral | chimneys | church | cityscape | horses (animals) | men | pillars | railing | river | street | towers | trees | windows | women
- Associated Places:
- Europe | France | Notre-Dame de Paris | Paris | Pont des Arts | Pont Neuf | Seine | Île de la Cité | Île-de-France
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:55715
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