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The Muff

The Muff

After: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American (worked in England), 1834 - 1903)

Date: 1874
Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions:
Framed: 14 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 1 in. (37.5 x 29.8 x 2.5 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 x 5 3/16 in. (25.2 x 13.2 cm)
Image: 4 7/8 x 2 15/16 in. (12.4 x 7.5 cm)
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Object number: 2013.16.67.58C
This fashionably dressed young lady was one of several created by Whistler including: The Velvet Dress (1873/74), Tatting (1874), and Maude Standing (1876/78). In 1886, English art critic Frederick Wedmore observed, “A young woman seated, having come to pay a morning call, and meaning to be pleasant ... A scarce little dry-point, of elegant and refined triviality – if, indeed, it is to be trivial to be entirely of our day.”
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