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The little white girl

Frank SHORT (engraver), James McNeill WHISTLER (after)
The little white girl
 (1885)

Medium
etching

Measurements
17.8 × 12.0 cm (image) 18.8 × 13.1 cm (plate) 24.0 × 17.6 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Brigadier W.E. Clark, 1957

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hardie 171; Strange 28

Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.l.: after Whistler (possibly in Frank Short's hand)
inscribed in pencil l.c.: Frank Short to F. Goulding

Accession Number
1383.110-5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Subjects (general)
Another Work Human Figures

Subjects (specific)
dresses (garments) fans (costume accessories) mirrors reflections (perceived properties) reproductions (derivative objects) three-quarter-length figures women (female humans)

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