A Sketch from Billingsgate

1878

James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 14.61 x 22.54 cm (5 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.96 x 33.02 cm (8 1/4 x 13 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8504

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kennedy 1910, no. 168, iii/vi

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Royal Collection, Windsor, (Lugt 2535); sold to Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1906; (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. 41644, valued at £27, stock no. changed to a41996); sold 1906 to unidentified collector for $500. Probably in the 1920s with Kennedy & Co., New York. 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, iii/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 v/viii.

Inscriptions

lower right on recto: W130 / 4; lower left on verso: SXX-

Watermarks

IV countermark

Wikidata ID

Q65021921

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