Free Trade Wharf, 1877

  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903

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)

Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund

48.164

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

1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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.