About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
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Title
- Girl Reading in Bed
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1882
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Medium
- Pen and brown ink with traces of graphite on pink wove paper
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Inscriptions
- Signed recto, left, in brown ink: [artist's butterfly monogram]; inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "By Whistler"; inscribed verso, center, in graphite: "9' (illegible) white / 3/4 white (illegible) / (illegible)"; inscribed verso, right center, in graphite: "11 1/2 x 9"; inscribed verso, lower right, in black ink: "8"
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Dimensions
- 11.3 × 18 cm (4 1/2 × 7 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Charles Deering Collection
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Reference Number
- 1927.5877
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/50733/manifest.json