About the Artwork
Free Trade Wharf
1877
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
American
Unknown
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid japan paper
Plate: 3 7/8 × 7 3/8 inches (9.8 × 18.7 cm) Sheet: 7 7/8 × 11 inches (20 × 27.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund
48.164
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Markings
Signed in plate, lower left: [Whistler's butterfly device]
Inscription, in the plate, '[…]CKS', back to front, on roof of wharf building at upper right
Provenance
1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Free Trade Wharf, 1877, etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid japan paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund, 48.164.
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