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James McNeill Whistler

Black Lion Wharf, 1859

Not on View

series Title

A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.24 x 22.23 cm (6 x 8 3/4 in.)

sheet: 21.59 x 30.48 cm (8 1/2 x 12 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 54, state ii/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.9104

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Whistler. 1859.

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1963: American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 205.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 42.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 54, ii/iv. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

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