Harvard Art Museums > R216NA: The Pool Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Pool (James Abbott McNeill Whistler) , R216NA,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/249996. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number R216NA People James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England) Title The Pool 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/249996 Physical Descriptions Medium Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white Japanese paper Technique Etching and drypoint Dimensions plate: 14 × 21.6 cm (5 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.) sheet: 17.2 × 24.3 cm (6 3/4 × 9 9/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: in plate: Whistler 1859; in sheet margin: butterfly imp. inscription: below bottom plate line, right of center, graphite: [butterfly] imp. inscription: in plate, lower left, etched: Whistler. / 1859. inscription: verso, to right in the composition, graphite: 216 inscription: in plate, etched: [on signboard] COOPER / Gr GEORGE'S Wf / NEW CRANE / TO LET[ / on boat at right] 'JANE No. 6 Provenance Recorded Ownership History H. Wunderlich and Co., Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1898. State, Edition, Standard Reference Number State Glasgow vi/vi Standard Reference Number Kennedy 43; Glasgow 49 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, John Witt Randall Fund Object Number R216NA Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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. 5.6 on p. 139 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography] Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
