Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate, 1854/1855

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 12.7 x 24.13 cm (5 x 9 1/2 in.)
plate: 14.61 x 25.4 cm (5 3/4 x 10 in.)

sheet: 15.24 x 26.04 cm (6 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 1, state i/i

Accession Number

1943.3.8396

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

"J.W." upper left composition, in plate, artist's hand. Not dated. "signed in left of upper coast view "J.W."" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "The work in the lower part of the plate indicates deep or shoal water." lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "Whistler's Coast Survey/ Given me by Keppel" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

Provenance

Frederick Keppel [1845-1912], New York; given to Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to the National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Keppel, Frederick
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. 1.

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, cat. no. 1, state i/i.