Rotherhithe, one of the "Sixteen Etchings," or the "Thames Set" / James McNeill Whistler
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- Accession Number
- 1954/1.345
- Title
- Rotherhithe, one of the "Sixteen Etchings," or the "Thames Set"
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint on laid Japan tissue
- Object Creation Date
- 1860
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- On the plate, l.l.: Whistler. 1860.
- Dimensions
- 36.8 cm x 28 cm (14 1/2 in. x 11 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- Two men smoking long-stem pipes are seen sitting on a balcony. Behind them are visible the masts of ships along the bank, and further behind them in the distance a river sweeps towards the left. Buildings crowd the shore and boats are shown moored or in the river.
- Subject Matter
- Whistler spent several months in the commercial districts of London during 1859 and his etchings of the warehouses, docks, and people of Battersea and, in this instance Wapping, became the foundation of the Thames Set etchings, published in 1871. Densely clustered lines and careful observation characterize these views along the Thames. Charles Baudelaire celebrated the modernity of these views of London when a group of them were shown in Paris in 1862, describing them as “subtle and lively as improvisation and inspiration,” expressing with their “wonderful tangles of rigging, yardarms and rope; farragos of fog, furnaces and corkscrews of smoke; the profound and intricate poetry of a vast capital.”
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- figures
- hydraulic structures
- hydraulic structures by function
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- objects we use
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- physical activities
- physical activities by general context
- reservoirs (water distribution structures)
- ships
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- the natural world
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- water distribution structures
- waterscapes
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 945 x 1315
- File Size
- 157 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.345
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"Rotherhithe, one of the "Sixteen Etchings," or the "Thames Set"; James McNeill Whistler." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.345/1954_1.345.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.
