The Lime-Burner

1859

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

This is a drawing of a rustic building's interior with various tools. The artwork depicts a structure that appears to be a barn or shed, filled with wooden beams and supports, ladders leaning against the wall, and an assortment of farming tools scattered around. A pathway leads into the interior, where light enters through the open entrance, revealing more of the tools and objects within.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on possibly laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.24 × 17.62 cm (9 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8430

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, no. 55, state i/ii

  • Series Title

    A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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. 46.

2012

  • MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 55, state i/ii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Whistler / 1859.; by later hand, on recto lower left: 46

Wikidata ID

Q65021847

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