Eagle Wharf |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.270) | |
| Number: | 50 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 140 x 217 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' below centre | |
| Inscribed: | '1859.' at lower centre | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Thames Set', 1871 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 73 | |
| Catalogues: | K.41; M.40; T.40; W.39 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (73) | ||
Whistler dated Eagle Wharf '1859' on the copper plate.
The artist worked and lived by the Thames from the beginning of August to early October 1859. 1 He 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], The Pool [49], Eagle Wharf [50], Thames Police [53], W. Jones, Lime-Burner, Thames Street [55] and Billingsgate [51].
1: Lochnan 1984, p. 81.
Eagle Wharf was published in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames (the 'Thames Set'), by Ellis & Green in 1871.