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Print of man sitting in rowboat with shipyard behind him

A bearded man in a round cap sits in a rowboat facing the viewer. He appears to have an oar propped up on the right side of the boat. Behind the man is a shipyard crowded with boats. Several other rowboats, some filled with cargo, are chained to posts behind the man and to the right. The shoreline stretches across the right, behind the boats, and arcs out to the left, forming the horizon. It is covered with wooden and brick buildings, some of which appear weathered. Larger sailboats can be seen in the distant background to the left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
G5718
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Pool
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
1859
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/280032

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white modern laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 13.8 × 21.6 cm (5 7/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
sheet: 16.1 × 23.7 cm (6 5/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: DE ERVEN D.k BLAUW
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite, handwritten: cursive initials, running along left edge to corner: E.H.G.
  • inscription: in plate, lower left, etched: Whistler. / 1859.
  • collector's mark: verso, graphite: E. H. G. [Edward Hale Greenleaf (Lugt 5207)]
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    GRAY COLLECTION, / 5718 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow vi/vi
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 43; Glasgow 49

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G5718
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Emma Chambers, An Indolent and Blundering Art?: The Etching Revival and the Redefinition of Etching in England, 1838-1892, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, England, 1999), repr. as fig. 5.6 on p. 139 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography]

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, 07/24/2023 - 11/13/2023

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