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Image of a man seated by a waterway with two figures rowing a boat across it.

The image area of this piece has a waterway cutting through it diagonally from left to right. On the far side of the water is a tree lined hill and a small house or cabin. Rowing up the river are two figures on a small boat. The figure at the stern mans the oars, while the figure at the prow sits facing them. On the side of the water sits a man in the bottom right corner in a suit and hat. In his lap is a book, and he is looking down towards it as he faces the water.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12114
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Sketching No. 1
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1861
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262847

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 16.6 × 23.6 cm (6 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
plate: 12.2 × 16.7 cm (4 13/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: Whistler
  • inscription: lower plate edge, engraved: publisher: London. Published December 1st. 1861 by Day & Son. Lith. to the Queen J. Whistler
  • inscription: in plate, lower right corner, etched: Whistler -
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,1145 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1947.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow v/vi
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 86; Glasgow 83

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
M12114
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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