Billingsgate, 1859

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.08 × 22.38 cm (5 15/16 × 8 13/16 in.)

sheet: 20.96 × 28.58 cm (8 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 51, state ix/ix

Accession Number

2015.19.1531

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Whistler. 1859.; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 639; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: K.c4 Billingsgate-; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 36

Marks and Labels

stamped lower left verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Frederick Keppel & Co.

Exhibition History

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 19

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 7.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 51, ix/ix. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk