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Print of two men sitting in shipyard with sailboats

Two men sit in the foreground inside an area with a low wooden wall. The man on the left is younger. He looks toward the right. The man on the right is older and wears a black cap. He looks at the younger man. Behind the men is a shipyard. Many sailboats float on the water on the left. Their sails are folded up, but we can see the dark lines of their masts and rigging. On the right is the shoreline, which is full of wooden and brick buildings. The land extends toward the background and then curves around to the left behind the shipyard, forming the horizon.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
G5716
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Rotherhithe
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects, 1871
Alternate Title: Wapping
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1860
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279919

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
sheet: 29.5 x 22 cm (11 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
plate: 27.4 x 19.9 cm (10 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate: Whistler 1860
  • collector's mark: verso, graphite: E.H.G.
    [Edward Hale Greenleaf (Lugt 5207)]
  • inscription: lower left, etched: Whistler 1860.
  • watermark: DE ERVEN D.k BLAUW
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    GRAY COLLECTION, / 5716 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow vi/vi
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 60; Glasgow 70

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G5716
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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