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Vauxhall Bridge |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.313) | |
| Number: | 75 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 69 x 114 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1861' at lower right (G.2) | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 36 | |
| Catalogues: | K.70; M.70; T.46; W.66 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (36) | ||
Vauxhall Bridge is dated '1861' on the copper plate. According to Ralph Thomas it was etched on 18 February 1861. 1
At least twenty etchings date from 1861, including six of the river Thames, Millbank [78], Westminster Bridge in Progress [77], The Little Pool [79], Battersea Dawn (Cadogan Pier) [95] and Old Hungerford Bridge [76]. One of these - The Little Pool [79] - was the title sheet for the 'Thames Set' and two others - Millbank [78] and Battersea Dawn (Cadogan Pier) [95] - were published with that set in 1871.
At least twenty etchings date from 1861, including six of the river Thames, Millbank [78], Westminster Bridge in Progress [77], The Little Pool [79], Battersea Dawn (Cadogan Pier) [95] and Old Hungerford Bridge [76]. One of these - The Little Pool [79] - was the title sheet for the 'Thames Set' and two others - Millbank [78] and Battersea Dawn (Cadogan Pier) [95] - were published with that set in 1871.
1: Thomas 1874 , cat. no. 46.