Millbank | ||
Number: | 78 | |
Date: | 1861 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 102 x 127 mm | |
Signed: | 'James Whistler' (in inscription) (1-4); removed (5) | |
Inscribed: | '1861' at lower left; 'The Works of James Whistler: Etchings and Dry Points, are on View at E. Thomas' .. Publisher / 39. Old Bond Street' at lower right (1-2); 'London.' added (4); erased (5) | |
Set/Publication: | 'Thames Set', 1871 | |
No. of States: | 5 | |
Known impressions: | 67 | |
Catalogues: | K.71; M.71; T.44; W.67 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (67) |
The copper plate bears the stamp of Whistler's favourite supplier, 'HUGHES & KIMBER / MANUFACTURERS/ RED LION SQUARE / FLEET STREET / LONDON'. The same stamp appears on two other etchings of the Thames in 1861, The Little Pool 079 and Old Hungerford Bridge 076.
The plate was cancelled with a central vertical and several ruled horizontal lines. A set of cancelled impressions of the 'Thames Set' was printed (, ).
The cancelled copper plate was purchased in 1896 by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), and bequeathed by him to the Freer Gallery of Art in 1919. 11
11: Acc. No. 1896.12.