A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain Forming the Collections of Sir Henry Thompson, Illustrated by the autotype process from drawings by James Whistler, Esq. and Sir Henry Thompson

Object Details

• Artist

  James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

• Author

  Sir Henry Thompson (1820-1904)

• Publisher

  Ellis and White, London

• Printer

  Elzevir Press , printed by John C. Wilkins

• Edition/State

  one of 220 unnumbered copies

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Exhibition History

  Chinamania (2016) (July 9, 2016 to June 4, 2017)

• Origin

  London, England

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Book

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1870s

• Name

  Whistler, James McNeill, Thompson, Henry, Ellis and White, London, Elzevir Press

• Place

  China, London, England

• Topic

  Art collecting, Porcelain, Art, European Art, Carbon process

• Culture

  Europeans

• Object Type

  Books