Billingsgate | ||
Number: | 51 | |
Date: | 1859 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 152 x 223 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler.' to right of centre | |
Inscribed: | '1859.' at lower right | |
Set/Publication: | 'The Portfolio', London, 1878 | |
No. of States: | 9 | |
Known impressions: | 125 | |
Catalogues: | K.47; M.46; T.34; W.45 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (125) |
Billingsgate was dated '1859' by Whistler on the copper plate.
Thus it is close in date to such Thames etchings as Thames Warehouses 046, Limehouse 048, Eagle Wharf 050, Black Lion Wharf 054, The Pool 049, Thames Police 053 and Longshore men 052.