Free Trade Wharf
1877
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 9.68 × 18.73 cm (3 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 17.78 × 26.35 cm (7 × 10 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.411
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 171, state iv/xiii
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
1990
Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 41, repro
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 163.
2012
MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 171, iv/xiii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 8622; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: A94287; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: EW
Watermarks
MBM
Wikidata ID
Q77012926