Accession Number
1978/1.166

Title
Firelight: Joseph Pennell

Artist(s)
James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1896

Medium & Support
transfer lithograph on laid paper

Dimensions
13 7/8 in. x 10 in. ( 35.2 cm x 25.4 cm )

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Subject matter
Whistler drew this portrait of his friend and biographer, the American artist Joseph Pennell, to serve as a frontispiece for the upcoming book on lithography that Pennell and his wife Elizabeth Robins Pennell were writing.

Physical Description
A bearded man, seen at some distance, is seated with legs crossed in an armchair with his hands behind his head.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
Figures
chairs (furniture forms)
frontispieces (illustrations)
males
reclining
seated figures