Eagle Wharf, 1859

Not on View

series Title

Scenes on the Thames

Medium

etching on laid paper

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 50, only state

Accession Number

1943.3.8425

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate lower center: Whistler. 1859.; by later hands, at lower right on the recto: K41 (underlined); (EE1000) Tyzac Whitel; at lower right on the recto: 500-[erased]

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 41.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 50, only state.