James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Black Lion Wharf

PublisherLondon
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Black Lion Wharf
  • from A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames (the 'Thames Set')
Date1859, published 1871
Place depictedLondon, England
Published inLondon, England
MediumEtching on laid paper, state II/IV
DimensionsPlate: 5 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. (15 × 21 cm)
Credit LineGift of Marjorie G. and Evan C. Horning
Object number74.285
Non exposé

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Sir Edmund Walker, Print Collector, a Tribute to Sir Edmund Walker on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Art Gallery of Ontario," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, November 22, 1974—January 12, 1975.

"American Impressionist Paintings," Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, April 3—May 22, 1980.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed and dated, in plate, lower right: Whistler 1859
Recto: Signed and dated, in plate, lower right: Whistler 1859
Catalogue raisonnéK42; M41; T35; W40

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