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Rotherhithe (Wapping),

From the set of sixteen etchings, The Thames Set

Etching and drypoint on fine wove paper

First of three states

Print impression quality: Good

Dimensions (Plate): 269 x 199 mm (10.6 x 7.8 in.)

Inscribed in plate, lower left: “Whistler. 1860”; inscribed in pen in brown ink below image in margin lower right: “Rotherhithe”

Edition: Probably a proof. From the set “A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects,” known as “The Thames Set,” published 1871

Accession number: 1996.9.1

Gift of John P. Howland (BA Wesleyan 1935), 1996

Provenance / Collectors' marks: Kennedy Gallery (old label from Kennedy Gallery, now in DAC donor file). Theodore Dewitt.

Bibliography: Kennedy i/iii; see DAC donor file.

Work Type: print

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• harbors
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