File:Illustration to "The Morning before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew" (Once a Week) MET DP814209.jpg

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The Morning before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew (from "Once a Week"), print, after James McNeill Whistler, possibly engraved by Joseph Swain (MET, 17.3.260)

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Illustration to "The Morning before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew" (Once a Week, volume 7, page 210)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
James McNeill Whistler  (1834–1903)  wikidata:Q203643 s:en:Author:James Abbott McNeill Whistler q:en:James McNeill Whistler
 
James McNeill Whistler
Description American-British painter, etcher, illustrator, writer, lithographer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 10 July 1834 Edit this at Wikidata 17 July 1903 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lowell London
Work location
Belgium; Valparaíso; Paris; Trouville-sur-Mer; Venice; Amsterdam; Dordrecht; The Hague; Vlissingen; Zaanstad; London; Washington, D.C. Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q203643
engraved by
Joseph Swain  (1820–1909)  wikidata:Q16856885 s:en:Author:Joseph Swain (1820-1909)
 
Joseph Swain
Alternative names
J. Swain
Description British engraver
Date of birth/death 29 February 1820 Edit this at Wikidata 25 February 1909 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Oxford Ealing
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q16856885
Title
Illustration to "The Morning before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew" (Once a Week, volume 7, page 210)
Description
English: Illustration for the poem "The Morning Before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew" by Walter Thornbury, published in Once a Week Magazine. Depicts one of the unsuspecting people who are to be massacred the next day, a lady sitting with her embroidery at a window.

Woodcut engraved by Joseph Swain from a drawing by James McNeill Whistler.
Date 1862
date QS:P571,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Wood engraving; proof
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Drawings and Prints
Accession number
17.3.260
Credit line Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/372889

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