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Millbank

Print
1861 (etched), 1871 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching by James Whistler, ‘Millbank’, from the Thames Set. Etched 1861, printed and issued in 1871 as one of the ‘Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames, and Other Subjects,’ by Ellis and Green, 32 King Street, Covent Garden, in editions of one hundred. Dated by the artist in plate. View of the Thames at Millbank, at low tide. The eye is drawn to a line of mooring posts on the bank, converging in a sharply receding perspective at right with the railings running parallel and the vanishing point of the river. In the foreground at left, a barge and two men on the shore with buildings on the far bank of the river in the distance.


Object details

Category
Object type
Titles
  • Millbank (generic title)
  • The Thames Set (series title)
  • A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and other subjects (series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching on paper
Brief description
Etching by James Whistler, 'Millbank', from the Thames Set. Etched 1861, published in 'Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames, and Other Subjects,' London, 1871.
Physical description
Etching by James Whistler, ‘Millbank’, from the Thames Set. Etched 1861, printed and issued in 1871 as one of the ‘Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames, and Other Subjects,’ by Ellis and Green, 32 King Street, Covent Garden, in editions of one hundred. Dated by the artist in plate. View of the Thames at Millbank, at low tide. The eye is drawn to a line of mooring posts on the bank, converging in a sharply receding perspective at right with the railings running parallel and the vanishing point of the river. In the foreground at left, a barge and two men on the shore with buildings on the far bank of the river in the distance.
Dimensions
  • Plate height: 10.1cm
  • Plate width: 12.7cm
  • Paper height: 15cm
  • Paper width: 20.5cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'1861.' (Dated in plate bottom left)
Object history
1871 edition. W.67, 2nd state; K.71, 5th state.
Subjects depicted
Places depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Wedmore, Frederick. Whistler's Etchings, A Study and a Catalogue. London: Colnaghi & Co, 1899. No.67, 2nd state.
  • Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978. No.71, 5th state.
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1912
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.13-1912

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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