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Eagle Wharf

A work made of etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper.

Date:

1859

Artist:

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Title

Eagle Wharf

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1859

Medium

Etching with foul biting in black ink on off-white laid paper

Inscriptions

Signed and dated in plate, lower center, in image: "Whistler, / 1859."

Dimensions

Plate: 13.7 × 21.5 cm (5 7/16 × 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 21.5 × 30.7 cm (8 1/2 × 12 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Charles Deering Collection

Reference Number

1927.5914

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