James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 Lowell, MA – 1903 London
Old Hungerford Bridge, 1861
Etching. Size of plate: 13.5 x 21 cm.
Literature: Kennedy No. 76
Glasgow 76 IV/IV.
Part of the Thames Sets, the subject was published in London in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes of the Thames by Ellis & Green in 1871. The success of this series established Whistler's reputation as an etcher [1].
[1] M. MacDonald, Whistler, James (Abbott) McNeill, in Grove Art Online, 2003, p. 3.
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