Print of street with shop fronts and people
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

We face a row of three buildings with a street in front of it. The bottom two stories of each building are in frame. The upper floors of the buildings have paned windows, and the left building has much larger windows on the lower floor as well. The center and right buildings both have awnings. A shopkeeper occupies the space below the central awning. Several people stand before the counter in front of the shopkeeper. Another group of people is gathered to their left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.264
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Fish Shop, Chelsea
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Fish-Shop, Busy Chelsea
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1886
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/12372

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paperb
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 13.9 x 21.4 cm (5 1/2 x 8 7/16 in.)
sheet: 14.6 x 21.4 cm (5 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l. signature tab signed in pencil with butterfly and inscribed imp.
  • inscription: on a dependant tab below the lower platemark, to left, graphite: butterfly imp.
  • inscription: etched between the left-most second-story window and the window to its right: butterfly
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 16153 [underlined / The Fish Shop, Chelsea / 1856 / W. 214 / 2005.264

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow i/ii
Standard Reference Number
Kemmedy 264, Glasgow 267

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patricia Cornwell
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.264
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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