The Thames Towards Erith, c. 1877

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.6 × 22.3 cm (5 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.)

sheet (irreg.): 19.6 × 27.4 cm (7 11/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 173, state iv/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.8499

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

[Whistler's butterfly signature] lower right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp." lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "a45541 / a34695 [stricken]" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "W. 135" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. (Henry H. Benedict collector's stampt) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1298).

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, ,stock no. a 45541). Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York, (Lugt 394). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Benedict, Henry Harper
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 165, iv/iv.

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. 173, state iv/iv.