Steamboats off the Tower

1875

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

James McNeill Whistler

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8483

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 156, state iii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York stock no. a 49478, 65711). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 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. 149, iii/iii.

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. 156, state iii/iv.

Inscriptions

upper left on the verso: 98 (upside down, in semi-circle); lower left on the verso: £38

Watermarks

DE ERVEN Dk BLAUW

Wikidata ID

Q65021900

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