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Print of bank next to waterway with ships

A wide sloping bank sidles along a narrow waterway to the left. A tall fence borders the right edge of the bank, receding all the way into the background. A line of cylindrical posts runs parallel to the wall. Two figures in work clothes stand on the bank in the near foreground. To their left, another figure in a top hat stands at the tip of a boat at the edge of the bank. Small boats float on the waterway. The shoreline on the other side of the water is covered in buildings with tall smokestacks.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
G5725
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/280225

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 10.1 × 12.7 cm (4 × 5 in.)
sheet: 12.3 × 14.9 cm (4 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: unsigned
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left corner, graphite:
    E. H. G. [Edward Hale Greenleaf (Lugt 5207)]
    .
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    GRAY COLLECTION, / 5725 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]
  • inscription: printed on stern of foreground boat, etching and drypoint: DELIGHT / 1861

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, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G5725
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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