Longshoremen

1859

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.24 × 22.7 cm (6 × 8 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.32 × 31.75 cm (8 × 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.419

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 52, state iii/iv


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • Whistler, Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1952

1982

  • Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 22

1990

  • Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 25, repro

Bibliography

1910

  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 45.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 52, iii/iv. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Whistler - / 1859 -; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: No. 43 Longshoremen; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 4257; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 917913; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 4257

Watermarks

[unidentified crest]

Wikidata ID

Q77008704


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