Old Battersea Bridge

1879

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image shows a wooden bridge over a river, with figures on the bridge. In the background, there are industrial buildings and rooftops. The water is depicted with gentle ripples, and a sailboat with two sails is visible. The color palette is mainly muted sepia tones.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.8512

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    MacDonald 2012, 188, state vi/vii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York.) Purchased 1927 by 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. 177, state v/v.

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. 188, state vi/vii.

Inscriptions

on plate: [butterfly]; on tab: [ butterfly of 1888/1889]

Watermarks

[none]

Wikidata ID

Q65021928

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