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Maker:

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill; printmaker; American artist, 1834-1903

Name:

print

Date:

1859

Production
Note(s):

From the series "Sixteen Etchings". Published as "Old Westminster Bridge".
Second state

Technique:

etching

Material(s):

black carbon ink; medium
paper; support

Dimension(s):

height, plate, 75, mm
width, plate, 203, mm
height, sheet, 190, mm
width, sheet, 314, mm

Acquisition:

bequeathed; 1959-05; Knowles, Guy John Fenton

Inscription(s):

signature; image lower left; printed; Whistler
date; image lower left; printed; 1859

Alternative
Number(s):

Wedmore (Whistler); 36; 1899
Mansfield; 38 II; 1909
Kennedy; 39 II; 1910

Exhibition(s):

Exhibition of works of art, given and bequeathed by the late G.J.F. Knowles. 1959-10-19 - 1960-01-31
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)

Etchings by James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler. 1971-03 - 1971-04
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)

Documentation:

Wedmore, Frederick. 1899. Whistler's etchings; a study and a catalogue.London?: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.

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P.2090-R; Eagle Wharf (Tyzac, Whiteley & Co.)
P.284-1954; The Little Pool

Accession:

Object Number: P.79-1959
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 10209; input: 2000-07-21; modified: 2004-04-01)

Permanent
Identifier:

http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/10209