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Print of man sitting in boat with more boats and buildings in background

In the foreground, a squinting bearded man in a round cap sits in profile facing right. He is seated in a small boat with his left arm resting on its edge. Rope is coiled around a post on the boat’s side. Several similar boats float in the background, some with sailors sitting in them and rowing. A dock juts out among the boats. It is attached to land in the background, which is lined with many buildings. Most of the buildings are brick, and some have wide doors on their bottom levels. Several have tall brick chimneys.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
G5712
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
Black Lion Wharf
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/280223

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white modern laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 15 × 22.8 cm (5 7/8 × 9 in.)
sheet: 17.5 × 24.9 cm (6 7/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate, lower right: Whistler
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, graphite:
    E. H. G. [Edward Hale Greenleaf (Lugt 5207)]
  • inscription: in plate, lower right, etched: Whistler. 1859.
  • watermark: DE ERVEN D.k BLAUW
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    GRAY COLLECTION, / 5712 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow iv/iv
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 42, Glasgow 54

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G5712
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. 5.4 on p. 137 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography]

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