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Black Lion Wharf |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.271) | |
| Number: | 54 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 153 x 229 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1859.' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Thames Set', 1871 | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 104 | |
| Catalogues: | K.42; M.41; T.35; W.40 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (104) | ||
The copper plate bears the manufacturer's rectangular stamp, 'HUGHES & KIMBER / MANUFACTURERS/ RED LION SQUARE / FLEET STREET / LONDON'. The same stamp appears on three other Thames plates of 1859 of the same size (Stevens' Boat Yard
[56], Thames Police
[53], as well as Venus
[60]) and several portraits, all of 1859-1860 (Z. Astruc, Editor of 'L'Artiste'
[36], Whistler with a hat
[44], Fumette's Bent Head
[58], Arthur Haden
[66], Mr Mann
[73], Axenfeld
[68] and Riault (The Wood Engraver)
[69]).
It was published with the 'Thames Set' in 1871. It was cancelled with four vertical lines and two diagonal lines running from corner to corner. The plate was bought in 1896 by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who bequeathed it to the Freer Gallery of Art. 17
17: Acc. No. 1896.5.