Detail View: The AMICA Library: La Belle Dame paresseuse

AMICA ID: 
AIC_.1917.520
AMICA Library Year: 
1998
Object Type: 
Prints
Creator Name: 
Way, Thomas
Creator Nationality: 
European; British
Creator Dates/Places: 
English; 1837-1915 Europe,United Kingdom,Great Britain,England
Creator Name-CRT: 
Thomas Way
Creator Name: 
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Creator Nationality: 
North American; American
Creator Dates/Places: 
American; 1834-1903 North and Central America,North America,United Sta
Creator Name-CRT: 
James McNeill Whistler
Title: 
La Belle Dame paresseuse
Title Type: 
preferred
View: 
Full view
Creation Date: 
1894
Creation Start Date: 
1894
Creation End Date: 
1894
Materials and Techniques: 
Lithograph from thin, transparent transfer paper, in black ink, on cream wove Japanese vellum
Classification Term: 
Lithograph
Subject Description: 
Seated portrait of Beatrix Whistler, almost asleep holding newspaper or magazine
Creation Place: 
North and Central America,North America,United States
Dimensions: 
image: 236 x 175 mm; sheet: 311 x 231 mm
AMICA Contributor: 
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: 
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 
1917.520
Credit Line: 
The Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Bryan Lathrop
Inscriptions: 
Signed with butterfly on stone, center right of image
Rights: 
Context: 
Drawn by Whistler and printed by Way in 1894. This impression one of 14 printed posthumously by Goulding 28 March 1904.Drawing produced by Whistler in Paris. Transferred and printed by Way in London.
Related Image Identifier Link: 
AIC_.G00001.TIF