James Abbott McNeill Whistler
The Lime Burner

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Lime Burner
  • from A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames (The 'Thames Set')
Date1859
PlaceUnited States
MediumEtching and drypoint on laid paper
DimensionsImage: 9 7/8 × 6 13/16 in. (25.1 × 17.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (27.6 × 20 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by John B. Brent, S. Reed Morian, and Mr. and Mrs. Gene M. Woodfin in honor of Meredith J. Long at "One Great Night in November, 1993"
Object number93.385
Not on view

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Acid on Metal: The Art of Etching and Aquatint," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 September - 27 November 2011.
Catalogue raisonnéKennedy 46 ii/ii

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1858
Etching with drypoint on laid paper, state IV/IV
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Etching with drypoint on laid paper, state V/V
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1859, published 1871
Etching and drypoint on laid paper
44.2
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1863
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1859
Etching with drypoint on wove paper, state III/IV
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Overall recto, cropped
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1858
Etching and drypoint in black ink with foul biting and plate tone on cream Asian paper, state II/III
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1859, published 1871
Etching on laid paper, state II/IV
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1859, published 1871
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91.1906
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1896
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1896
Transfer lithograph with stumping on laid paper, state II/II
81.163