File:Thames warehouses, 1859 RMG PW5486.tiff
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English: Thames warehouses, 1859 A view of the river Thames showing the Hermitage Coal Wharf and other wharves in Wapping. The warehouses on the left have signs which read “Fred Vink &Co / Rope & Sail Makers / Smith & Son / Hermitage Coal Wharf.” Down the shore on the right a warehouse sign reads “Hore’s Wharf.” This is a busy scene with several sailing ships and lighters. The Coal Wharf later became the Hermitage Steam Wharf, from where the London and Edinburgh Shipping Company ran regular services to Leith. Born in Massachusetts, Whistler was not strictly a marine painter, but he did produce many views of the Thames. This print was one of Whistler's 'Series of Sixteen Etchings on the Thames', published by by Frederick Standridge Ellis in 1871. He etched the plates for these prints after he moved to Wapping in 1859. He worked directly with his subjects and by doing so, succeeded in highlighting the existence of a working-class maritime community in the city of London. The work is signed and dated ‘Whistler 1859’, lower right. |
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| Date | 1859 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Mount: 75 mm x 202 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | This object was sighted as being on display during the Collections Inventory Project (2001-2005); It will need to be checked for object numbers and its condition activity updated. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/100313 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Print Room Location Code: I 20.4 1903 Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: K 38 II/2 id number: PAF5486 |
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| Collection | Fine art | ||||||||||||||||||||
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