[The flaming forge, Ajaccio] – Antique Wall Art
![[The flaming forge, Ajaccio], [1901] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/37/37a0832c25ca-L.webp)
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This rare historic drawing captures [The flaming forge, Ajaccio] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[The flaming forge, Ajaccio]
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A small graphite sketch on cream paper, this drawing records a forge in Ajaccio, the port town on Corsica, and it served as preparation for an etching of the same title, though the composition is reversed in the final plate. Whistler signed it with his butterfly monogram, and the sheet belongs to the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana at the Library of Congress. The Corsican etchings gave him trouble with the ground, the waxy coating a plate is drawn through, and they were not printed until after his death in 1903.
| Created / published | [1901] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : graphite ; sheet 13.8 x 7.9 cm. |
| Notes | Signed with butterfly. Cream wove paper. Title from catalogue raisonné. Preliminary drawing for the etching (reversed) from Corsica with the same title. Whistler had trouble with the ground for those etchings, eventually they were printed after his death. James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1678 (p. 602-03) Purchase; Pennell family and others?; 1921-1936. Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana. Exhibited: Library of Congress, Pennell Legacy |
| Subjects | Forge shops--France--Ajaccio--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 836 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-171190 |
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