A Sketch from Billingsgate, 1878

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.92 x 22.54 cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

sheet: 20.96 x 34.29 cm (8 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Kennedy 1910, no. 168, i/vi

Accession Number

1943.3.8503

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left on recto by Harold Wright: Whistler. / K168i Sketch from Billingsgate; lower right on recto: of I ; lower right on recto by Seymour Haden?: 1st state-; lower right on recto: B.322; upper left on recto: ?;lower centre on verso: 19; lower right on verso: Whistler / Haden (Haden erased)

Provenance

T.W. Walker. (not in Lugt). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 168, i/vi.

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. 165, state i/viii.