About the Artwork
Millbank
1861
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
American
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 4 × 5 inches (10.2 × 12.7 cm) Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 1/2 inches (17.5 × 21.6 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
21.64
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Markings
Inscribed and dated in the plate, lower left, [D]ELIGHT (on rear of the barge) and 1861
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: A 94234 (dealer stock number) Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right, 30 / BW (possibly 'BYV' or 'BYW' - if Y and V or W are conjoined)
Watermark: [L]IST
Provenance
1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 3, no. 8 (1922): 81-82.
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Millbank, 1861, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.64.
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