Billingsgate | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M3176
People: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title: Billingsgate
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1859
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/262567

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching and drypoint printed with overall light plate tone in black ink on thin laid Japanese paper

Technique

Etching and drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 15.4 × 22.7 cm (6 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
sheet: 20.2 × 25.6 cm (7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in plate: Whistler 1859
inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: a55261
inscription: yes, in plate, right of center,etched: Whistler. 1859.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Charles Bain Hoyt, Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1927.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: Glasgow ix/ix
Standard Reference Number: Kennedy 47; Glasgow 51

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
Accession Year: 1927
Object Number: M3176
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, 07/24/2023 - 11/13/2023

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M3176: Billingsgate