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Vauxhall Bridge

Print
1861 (etched)
Artist/Maker
Whistler (artists)

Etching by James McNeill Whistler, ‘Vauxhall Bridge’, 1861. View of the bridge, its spans reaching horizontally across the image. In the foreground, a barge loaded with cargo beyond a line of boats. The steep angle of the barge’s mast, sails and rigging intersects diagonally with a rope stretching from a pier or stanchion at the upper left to lower right.


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleVauxhall Bridge (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Etching on paper
Paper
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Etching by James McNeill Whistler, 'Vauxhall Bridge', 1861.
Physical description
Etching by James McNeill Whistler, ‘Vauxhall Bridge’, 1861. View of the bridge, its spans reaching horizontally across the image. In the foreground, a barge loaded with cargo beyond a line of boats. The steep angle of the barge’s mast, sails and rigging intersects diagonally with a rope stretching from a pier or stanchion at the upper left to lower right.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7cm
  • Width: 11.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Whistler. 1861.' (Signed and dated by the artist in plate bottom right.)
Object history
W.66; K.70.

Provenance: Bought from Miss C M Pott, London.
Subjects depicted
Bridges
Rivers
Boats
Barges
Places depicted
River Thames
London
Associated object
E.22-1905
Bibliographic references
  • Wedmore, Frederick. Whistler's Etchings, A Study and a Catalogue. London: Colnaghi & Co, 1899. No.66.
  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978. No.70.
  • p.78 Margaret F. MacDonald and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London. Whistler and the Thames London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2013. ISBN: 9781781300220.
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1919
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.203-1919

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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