Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate

1854/1855

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8396

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 1, state i/i

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

"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.

Markings

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

Watermarks

"MBM"

Wikidata ID

Q65021813

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