UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Old Westminster Bridge

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.266)
Number: 47
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 76 x 204 mm
Signed: 'Whistler' at lower left
Inscribed: '1859' at lower left
Set/Publication: 'Thames Set', 1871
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 75
Catalogues: K.39; M.38; T.36; W.36
Impressions taken from this plate  (75)
Whistler dated Old Westminster Bridge '1859' on the copper plate.
It was published in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames (the 'Thames Set'), by Ellis & Green in 1871.
Other Thames etchings dated 1859 include Thames Warehouses [46], Limehouse [48], The Pool [49], Eagle Wharf [50], Billingsgate [51], Thames Police [53] and Black Lion Wharf [54].