Image
Description
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.336
- Title
- Eagle Wharf (Tyzac, Whiteley & Co.), One of the 'Sixteen Etchings,' or the 'Tham
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- etching on laid tissue
- Object Creation Date
- 1859
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- On the plate: Whistler. 1859. On sheet, in pencil, l.r.: K.41 Tyzac Whiteley & Co. / only state
- Dimensions
- 23.6 cm x 34.3 cm (9 5/16 in. x 13 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- This plate shows a view of docks, businesses that serve shipping, and numerous ships, some pulled up in dry dock. In the foreground a low boat (a barge or lighter) angles into the space, on which a man in a cap is seated, hands on his knees, looking at the viewer.
- Subject Matter
- Many of Whistler's views of the Thames show the unsavory and dilapidated buildings around the Pool of London where the commercial hub of London's shipping business flourished. These regions, including Wapping and Rotherthite, were slated for demolition as part of an urban renewal project. Here Whistler was responding to Charles Baudelaire's challenge to artists that they find subjects for their art drawn from the "heriosm of modern life."
- Primary Keywords
- boats
- buildings
- water
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- objects we use
- ships
- the natural world
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- waterscapes
- Rights
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Collection Access
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- In public portfolios
- London items: 77, owner: dchoberk mstang kholihan eveba rnhuff hanmcm lgialane ralomi apassiak
System Metadata
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Image Size
- 1487 x 985
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Record
- 1954/1.336
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Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
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