Charing Cross Railway-Bridge

c. 1887

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (trimmed to plate): 13.2 × 9.4 cm (5 3/16 × 3 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8605

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 348, only state

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sold by Whistler to Knoedler & Co., New York, on 27 July 1888. Purchased April 3, 1930 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to 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. 310.

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. 348, only state.

Inscriptions

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower right verso in graphite by the artist:1st state (butterfly); lower left on the verso, probably by Whistler: No 7.; 33622 (upside down); lower centre on verso: 16212 MK (crossed out); MK 26291

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65022021

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