Battersea Morn |  Hunterian Art Gallery (47781) | |
| Number: | 174 | |
| Date: | 1877 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 150 x 225 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 14 | |
| Catalogues: | K.155; M.152; W.125 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (14) | ||
Battersea Morn dates from 1877. It was first recorded as sold in October 1877. 1 In 1878 H. Stewart Cundell in an article on 'English Etchings' announced:
1: Whistler to M. B. Huish, 10 October 1877, GUW #12734.
'Mr Whistler, we are glad to learn, is resuming his etching, and among his most recent plates we may mention "Battersea - Morn," a most delightful work, with the effect of silver haze rendered with consummate skill; "Linsey [sic] Houses," a view at Chelsea in dry-point, "Greenhithe," and etchings of Temple Bar and Wych-street, which, when completed, will rank with his most masterly plates.' 2
2: 'English Etching', The Standard, London, 25 April 1878, p. 2 (GUL PC1/94).