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Longshore men |  Freer Gallery of Art (1890.5) | |
| Number: | 52 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 153 x 225 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler - ' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1859 -' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 37 | |
| Catalogues: | K.45; M.44; T.45; W.43 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (37) | ||
Whistler dated Longshore Men '1859' on the copper plate.
Whistler made over thirty etchings during the year, including many scenes on and by the river Thames in London, such as Thames Warehouses
[46], Old Westminster Bridge
[47], Limehouse
[48], Black Lion Wharf
[54], The Pool
[49], Eagle Wharf
[50], Thames Police
[53], W. Jones, Lime-Burner, Thames Street
[55] and Billingsgate
[51].