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Girl Reading in Bed

A work made of pen and brown ink with traces of graphite on pink wove paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of pen and brown ink with traces of graphite on pink wove paper.

Date:

c. 1882

Artist:

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Title

Girl Reading in Bed

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1882

Medium

Pen and brown ink with traces of graphite on pink wove paper

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"

Dimensions

11.3 × 18 cm (4 1/2 × 7 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Charles Deering Collection

Reference Number

1927.5877

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