A Sketch from Billingsgate
1878
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

Artwork overview
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Medium
drypoint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1943.3.8503
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Catalogue Raisonné
Kennedy 1910, no. 168, i/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
T.W. Walker. (not in Lugt). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); 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. 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.
Inscriptions
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)
Watermarks
Beehive DEDB [?]
Wikidata ID
Q65021920