A Sketch of the Embankment

Not on View

Medium

etching in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 4.5 x 13.6 cm (1 3/4 x 5 3/8 in.)

sheet: 13.5 x 22 cm (5 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 268, only state

Accession Number

1987.41.72

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Sketch on the Embankment / 4; lower left verso in graphite: a50080 R10446

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 50080). Given by John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987.

Associated Names

Estabrook, John Nichols, Estate of

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 260.

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. 268, only state.