The Little Rotherhithe, 1861

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on Asian laid tissue paper

Dimensions

plate: 12.2 × 10 cm (4 13/16 × 3 15/16 in.)

sheet: 19.1 × 13.7 cm (7 1/2 × 5 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 74, state i/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.8446

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: Whistler. / 1861.; by later hands, lower left on the recto: K73 under :I; lower right on the verso (possibly by Whistler?): Towards Thames Tunnel; lower left on the verso: 8; lower centre on the recto by Harold Wright: Little Wapping

Provenance

Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York; purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

2022: The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2022, no. 3.

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 73, i/ii.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 74, state i/iv. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk