The Pool

Maker(s)
Artist: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Historical period(s)
1859
Medium
Etching; ink on paper
Dimensions
H x W (overall): 13.8 x 21.3 cm (5 7/16 x 8 3/8 in)
Geography
United States
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1888.34
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Print
Type

Intaglio

Keywords
boat, city, United States
Provenance

To 1888
Frederick Keppel and Co., London, England, and New York to 1888 [1]

From 1888 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Frederick Keppel and Co. in 1888 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Frederick Keppel and Co. (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919

Label

The appearance of a print is affected by many factors, including the way in which the plate is inked, the color of the ink, and the kind of paper used. This impression of The Pool is richly printed on thin laid Japan paper, which gives an extra luster to the dark black ink. The Pool was a wide stretch of the Thames downstream from Black Lion Wharf.


Whistler etchings are identified by "K" numbers as assigned in Edward Kennedy's catalogue, The Etched Work of Whistler, (New York: Grolier Club, 1910; and subsequent editions). This print is K43; third state of four.


Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G49 state 4 of 6.

Published References
  • Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonée., 2012. .
  • Howard Mansfield. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, 1909. .
  • Katharine Lochnan. The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. New Haven and London, 1984. .
  • Edward G. Kennedy. The Etched Work of Whistler: Illustrated by Reproductions in Collotype of the Different States of the Plates. 4 vols., New York, 1910. .
  • James McNeill Whistler in Context: Essays from the Whistler Centenary Symposium, University of Glasgow, 2003. vol. 2, 1st ed. Washington, 2008. p. 50, fig. 4.6.
Collection Area(s)
American Art
Web Resources
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