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Billingsgate
Printmaker: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Method of acquisition: Given (1920-12) by Thompson, Henry Francis Herbert, Sir, Bart
1859 - 1878
Final state, on Japanese paper
This etching, in the latest state, was published in "The Portfolio", a London art-magazine, in January 1878, after about a hundred impression had been taken on Japanese paper.
Support
composed of
Japanese paper
Plate
Height 153 mm
Width 227 mm
Sheet
Height 188 mm
Width 264 mm
Accession number: P.2081-R
Primary reference Number: 10175
Wedmore (Whistler): 45
Mansfield: 46 VII
Kennedy: 47 VIII
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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