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Penny Passengers, Limehouse |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.299) | |
| Number: | 71 | |
| Date: | 1860 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 81 x 206 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.67; M.67; W.59 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
Penny Passengers, Limehouse dates from about 1860. It is dated by the technique, and from details of the bonnets and hats, which suggest an early 1860s date. It is known that Whistler was working in Limehouse, Wapping and Rotherhithe in 1860.