Art Institute of Chicago

Black Lion Wharf, from A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames (the "Thames Set")

James McNeill Whistler

Date

1859, published 1871

Medium

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

Culture

United States

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

This etching is the framed print seen on the back wall of Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 , though its identification would only have been possible for those intimately familiar with Whistler’s printed oeuvre. It is believed that Whistler did indeed have a framed impression of this work installed in his house in London on Lindsey Row, where his mother sat for him. It therefore serves as a reference to the space itself, the artist’s studio, as well as his early acclaim in the field of printmaking.

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