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Vauxhall Bridge

Print
1861 (etched)
Artist/Maker

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
Object type
TitleVauxhall Bridge (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Etching on paper
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, 2nd state.
Subjects depicted
Places depicted
Associated object
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, 2nd state.
Collection
Accession number
E.22-1905

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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