Boston Public LibraryJames McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings / American Artists
Black Lion Wharf
Item Information
- Title:
- Black Lion Wharf
- Description:
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In front, in a barge on the Thames, a man wearing a cap on the back of his head sits facing to the right, resting his left arm on the side of the barge. On the river are two figures in a boat at the right. Near the center, by a landing-stage, is a barge loaded with barrels. Across the stream, barges lie in front of a dilapidated wharf, and a barge with furled sail lies alongside the bow of a large vessel. A rambling warehouse at the right, back of which towers a huge dark building, bears the sign, "Blac Lion Wharf." Adjoining the warehouse on the left is a narrow dwelling-house, next a broad house with a balcony and with the sign, "St. Andrews." Picturesque buildings extend from the broad house to a large warehouse with tiled roof, behind which rises a tall chimney from which smoke issues. On a wharf near the extreme left, there is a dark warehouse vessel listing toward the wharf. Upon the large warehouse are the signs, "Downes" and "Old Shipping Clippers to let Every Day. Glasgow, Inverness, Grangemouth, Peterham." Upon the dark warehouse, Hore's Wharf," also "Hoare's Wharf." Near the right lower corner, "Whistler, 1859."
- Artist:
- Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
- Name on Item:
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Whistler
- Date:
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1859
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Marine prints
Portrait prints
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Boats
Piers & wharves
- Places:
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England > Thames (river)
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 16 x 23 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076j636
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 42
Handwritten on item: "One of sixteen etchings" (Thames set)
- Notes (date):
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Date from item.
- Notes (citation):
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Kennedy, Edward G. (Edward Guthrie). "The etched work of Whistler ; compiled, arranged and described by Edward G. Kennedy, with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978, San Francisco.
- Notes (object):
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Third state of three.
The black mark at lower left edge has been removed.
- Identifier:
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17_14_000023
W. 1192 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666000188355
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