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) | ||
In 1861 Whistler was asked to illustrate two poems in Passages from Modern English Poets. Whistler wrote to Arthur James Lewis (1824-1901):
'Can't find anything among my old plates that will do for your work - but will at once begin, and finish two small etchings as I promised'. 9
9: Whistler to A. J. Lewis, [November 1861?], GUW #02138.