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Anacapa Island |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46661) | |
| Number: | 2 | |
| Date: | 1854 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 134 x 227 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | U.S. Coast Survey, 1854 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 16 | |
| Catalogues: | K.App.1; M.app. 1 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (16) | ||
The copper plate itself is dated 1854. It was etched in November or December 1854.
It must date from shortly after Whistler was hired to work as a draughtsman in the U.S. Coast Survey in Washington by the federal government on 7 November 1854, for $1.50 a day, and before the etching was published. It bears a publication date of 1854.
Whistler's only other known plate of this date is Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate
[1].