A Sketch of the Embankment, c. 1884/1886

Not on View

etching on laid paper

plate: 4.3 × 13.5 cm (1 11/16 × 5 5/16 in.)

sheet: 11 × 25.4 cm (4 5/16 × 10 in.)

MacDonald 2012, no. 268, only state

1943.3.8576

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

on plate: (butterfly); lower left on the recto: Sketch on the Embankment; lower left on the verso: c (underlined) / N/-/- and 5/5/-; 9729

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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

1964: Old Master Prints from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, organized by the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibitions Service, toured to Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA; University of Southern California, Los Angeles; University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH; Dullin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, TN; Atlanta Art Association, GA; York Junior College Gallery, York, PA; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Hill School, Pottstown, PA; Milwaukee Art Center, WI; and Western Washington State College. Bellingham, WA, 1964-1966, no. 43.

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 260.

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. 268, only state.