The little nude model reading – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The little nude model reading, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few of Whistler's figure lithographs center on a model simply reading, which sets this 1890 print apart from the studio nudes that dominate his work on stone. Whistler signed it with his butterfly device, both on the stone and in pencil, a mark he used in place of a conventional signature on many prints. Cataloged as Way 29 after the Thomas Way listing of Whistler's lithographs, it survives from an edition of 25, and it shows how he turned the quiet of an artist's studio into a study of light, pose, and stillness.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Subjects | Lithograph by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903. Way, 29. Edition of 25 reprinted. Signed on stone and in pencil with butterfly. Watermark: Pro Patria and lion with knight. Coll. mark blurred: Harry D. Holloway(?). Pennell Fund. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women--Nudes; Models; Books and reading; Artists Works. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 978 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157602 |
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