The Pool (K 43 IV) from The Thames Set
Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
Date: 1858
Dimensions:
5 3/8 × 8 3/8 in. (13.7 × 21.3 cm)
Medium: etching
Classification: Prints
Object number: 1912.1194
Label Text:The men who lived and worked along the Thames River, London, on boats and barges, docks and wharfs, in the area of Wapping and Limehouse became the subjects of a group of eight prints by Whistler. These prints were included in a set (the Thames Set) published in 1871. The workingmen and women are never idealized. They reflect the hard life of working class people in mid-19th-century London. “The workingmen of Wapping and their venue provided Whistler with a most appropriate realist subject: it was contemporary, it was working-class, it combined the elements of seascape and cityscape, and it was above all novel.”
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