Free Trade Wharf

1877

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: 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

  • 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


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