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
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid japan paper
Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund
48.164
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
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.