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Billingsgate

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46738)
Number: 51
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 152 x 223 mm
Signed: 'Whistler.' to right of centre
Inscribed: '1859.' at lower right
Set/Publication: 'The Portfolio', London, 1878
No. of States: 9
Known impressions: 125
Catalogues: K.47; M.46; T.34; W.45
Impressions taken from this plate  (125)
Billingsgate was dated '1859' by Whistler on the copper plate.
Thus it is close in date to such Thames etchings as Thames Warehouses 046, Limehouse 048, Eagle Wharf 050, Black Lion Wharf 054, The Pool 049, Thames Police 053 and Longshore men 052.