Thames Warehouses
date: label: Date
content: 1859
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Edition/State
content: 5, 2
label: Label
content: Echoing panoramic views of the Thames created two centuries earlier, Whistler chose a long, narrow format for one of his first two etchings of the river, still London’s main commercial thoroughfare. The familiar dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral hovers downriver in the far distance, blessing this bustling commercial scene crowded with vessels, serviced by dockworkers and bargemen, and overlooked by ramshackle warehouses advertising marine supplies.
label: Label
content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonn&‌eacute;," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G46 state 3 of 5.
label: Provenance
content: To 1905
label: Provenance
content: Obach & Co., London, to 1905 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1905 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1905 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change (November 18, 2023 to May 4, 2024)
label: Exhibition History
content: An American in London: Whistler and the Thames (May 3 to August 17, 2014)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Prints, East Corridor (January 5, 1944 to January 8, 1947)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (April 4, 1930 to January 20, 1944)
label: Exhibition History
content: Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler (March 23, 1925 to March 24, 1930)
label: Exhibition History
content: Special Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (January 14, 1924 to February 18, 1924)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: etching (printing process)
label: Topic
content: river
label: Topic
content: boat
label: Topic
content: work
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: store front
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1905.104
objectType: label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching; ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 7.6 x 20.2 cm (3 x 7 15/16 in)