Title(s):
Limehouse Sixteen Etchings
Maker:
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill; printmaker; American artist, 1834-1903
Category:
Name:
print
Date:
1859
School/Style:
British
Production
Note(s):
Second state
From the series "Sixteen Etchings". Published as "Limehouse".
Printed by the artist.
Technique(s):
etching
drypoint
Material(s):
black carbon ink; medium
paper; support
Dimension(s):
height, plate, 126, mm
width, plate, 201, mm
height, sheet, 267, mm
width, sheet, 360, mm
Acquisition:
given; 1923-09; Riches, Mrs T.H.
Provenance:
Mrs Whistler (the artist's mother); Thomas Nelson MacLean;
Inscription(s):
signature; image lower right; printed; Whistler
date; image lower right; printed; 1859
; verso upper right; graphite; Proof printed by J. Whistler / Given to me by Mrs. Whistler - (his mother) / 1872 / T.N. MacLean
Alternative
Number(s):
Wedmore (Whistler); 37; 1899
Mansfield; 39 II; 1909
Kennedy; 40 II; 1910
Exhibition(s):
Etchings by James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler. 1971-03 - 1971-04
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)
Prints by J.A. McNeill Whistler. 1952-10 - 1953-02
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.2079-R; Early Morning, Battersea
P.2090-R; Eagle Wharf (Tyzac, Whiteley & Co.)
P.284-1954; The Little Pool
P.79-1959; Old Westminster Bridge
Accession:
Object Number: P.2089-R
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 10322; input: 2000-07-24; modified: 2011-01-31)
Permanent
Identifier:
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