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Print of figures facing a bright object

Several figures in work clothes stand in a low room. Four people are clustered around an object at foreground left. It is a large, dark structure with a wide, bright opening, suggesting it is the titular forge. The man closest to it wears a puffy hat and an apron. Two figures in wide-brimmed hats behind him look on. One figure leans on a long hammer, which he rests on a large anvil in front of him. Other, less detailed figures stand to the right. One of these figures appears to be a small child, who gazes into the furnace at left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
G5714
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Forge
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
1861
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/280224

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 19.4 x 31.8 cm (7 5/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: Whistler/1861
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite, handwritten: cursive initials: E.H.G.
  • inscription: yes, in plate, lower right, ink, impression, signed, in artist's hand: signature, date: Whistler 1861

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii
Standard Reference Number
K. 68; Wed. 63; Lochnan 172

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G5714
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michel Melot, The Impressionist Print, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1996), repr. as figs. 37, 38, pp.38-39 [not Harvard Impression; related bibliography]

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