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Lobster Pots (The "Second Venice Set")

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American (active in England), 1834–1903)

about 1880–81

Medium/TechniqueEtching, printed in dark brown ink

DimensionsPlatemark: 11.7 x 20.0 cm (4 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 12.2 x 20.2 cm (4 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

Credit LineLee M. Friedman Fund

Accession number66.962

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InscriptionsInscribed in lower right: Selsea BillProvenanceOtto Gerstenberg (b. 1848 - d. 1935; Lugt 2785), Berlin; 1935, by inheritance to his daughter, Margarethe Scharf (b. 1889 - d. 1961), Berlin; 1943, stored by Margarethe Scharf at Oberstdorf, Allgäu, Germany where it was kept for the duration of World War II [see note]; 1961, by descent to Margarethe's son, Dieter Scharf, Hamburg. 1966, sold by R.E. Lewis, Inc., San Francisco, to the MFA for $200. (Accession Date: December 14, 1966)

NOTE: See Julietta Scharf and Hanna Strzoda with Janina Dahlmanns, Die Historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg, 2 vols. (Ostfildern, 2012), vol. 1, pp. 80-81 and vol. 2, p. 311, cat. no. 2023.