Rotherhithe, 1860

Not on View

series Title

A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 27.31 × 20 cm (10 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)

sheet: 33.81 × 24.77 cm (13 5/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 70, state vi/vi

Accession Number

2015.19.425

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Whistler 1860.; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: Julius Garfinkel-; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: 939; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 151; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: NX

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Frederick Keppel & Co.
Garfinckel, Julius

Exhibition History

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 11

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 34, repro

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 66.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 70, vi/vi. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk