Millbank | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: R223NA
People: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title: Millbank
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects, 1871
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1861
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/250464

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white Japanese paper

Technique

Etching and drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 10.2 × 12.6 cm (4 × 4 15/16 in.)
sheet: 14 × 17.2 cm (5 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: below plate line: butterfly insignia + imp
inscription: lower sheet margin just below the plaremark, left of center, graphite: [butterfly] imp.
inscription: lower left (on boat stern), etched: [plate edge]ELIGHT [DELIGHT] / 1861
inscription: verso, graphite: N.A. 223

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: H. Wunderlich and Co., Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1898.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: Glasgow v/v
Standard Reference Number: Kennedy 71; Glasgow 78

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, John Witt Randall Fund
Object Number: R223NA
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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