Harvard Art Museums > M12660: Longshoremen 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"Longshoremen (James Abbott McNeill Whistler) , M12660,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 04, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/262481. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number M12660 People James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England) Title Longshoremen Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1859 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/262481 Physical Descriptions Medium Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on bluish-white modern laid paper, somewhat lightstruck Technique Etching and drypoint Dimensions plate: 15.2 x 22.7 cm (6 x 8 15/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: in plate: Whistler 1859 inscription: right sheet margin, graphite: 6873 inscription: lower right, etched: Whistler- 1859. inscription: verso, graphite: EW collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite: THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,660 [Lugt 936] watermark: Provenance Recorded Ownership History Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1951. State, Edition, Standard Reference Number State Glasgow iv/iv Standard Reference Number Kennedy 45, Glasgow 52 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel Accession Year 1951 Object Number M12660 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. 5.8 on p. 142 [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
