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James McNeill Whistler

Limehouse

1858

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James McNeill Whistler

Limehouse

James McNeill Whistler

Limehouse

1858

Physical Qualities Etching and drypoint, Sheet: 245 × 339 mm. (9 5/8 × 13 3/8 in.) Plate: 127 × 200 mm. (5 × 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with Funds from the State of Maryland. Funds from Laurence and Stella Bendann, and Contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community

Object Number 1996.48.12325

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris

Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Prints of James A. McNeill Whistler from the Museum Collection," February 14-April 1, 1984.

Susan Dackerman, BMA, "Whistler & Cassatt: Americans Abroad," June 11-Oct. 13, 2003.

"Claude Monet and Modernist London: Reflections on the Thames", Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, Florida, January 16, 2005 through April 17, 2005; tour to Brooklyn Museum of Art, June 29, 2005 - September 4, 2005; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 2, 2005 - January 31, 2006.

Inscribed: Signed in red pencil: lower right "Whistler" Inscribed in pencil: on original mount (trimmed and attached to current mount), in Lucas' hand "Epreuve / Expose au Salon de 18 ? sous le numero 2757" Signed and dated in plate: lower right "Whistler 1859"

Markings: None

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

1833–1902

American, 1834-1903

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