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The Punt |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.315) | |
| Number: | 82 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 120 x 166 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower left (1-3); 'W' partly removed (4-final) | |
| Inscribed: | '1861.' at lower left (1-3); partly removed (4-final) | |
| Set/Publication: | Junior Etching Club, 1862 | |
| No. of States: | 6 | |
| Known impressions: | 35 | |
| Catalogues: | K.85; M.86; T.85; W.68 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (35) | ||
The Punt dates from 1861.
Both The Punt and Sketching
[83] were printed on 1 December 1861, and published in Passages from Modern English Poets, London, in 1862 (Plates 7 and 45). The Punt, under the title 'The Angler', illustrated the poem 'The Angler's Soliloquy' by John Hamilton Reynolds (1796-1862).