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: 19.7 × 32.3 cm (7 3/4 × 12 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 173, state iii/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.8498

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. Not dated. "3 mk 32557" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "a43473" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "[illeg.]" verso, lower center sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. (Charles W. Dowdeswell collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 690). (Henry H. Benedict collector's stampt) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1298).

Provenance

Charles William Dowdeswell [1832- 1915], London, (Lugt 690). (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock nos. a 32557?, a 43473). Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York, (Lugt 1298). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Benedict, Henry Harper
Dowdeswell, Charles William
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, ii/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 iii/iv.