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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R222NA
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Thames Warehouses
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects, 1871
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1859
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/249995

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white moderm laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 7.7 × 20.3 cm (3 1/16 × 8 in.)
sheet: 12 × 24.7 cm (4 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: butterfly insignia and in plate, lower right: Whistler 1859
  • inscription: lower left sheet corner, graphite: Thames Warehouses
  • inscription: lower sheet mjust below platemark, left of center, graphite: [butterfly] imp.
  • inscription: lower right, etched: Whistler. 1859.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, NY, USA, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1896.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iv/v
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 38, Glasgow 46

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, John Witt Randall Fund
Object Number
R222NA
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Emma Chambers, An Indolent and Blundering Art?: The Etching Revival and the Redefinition of Etching in England, 1838-1892, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, England, 1999), repr. as fig. 5.3 on p. 136 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography]

Verification Level

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