The Pool (K 43 IV) from The Thames Set

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The Pool (K 43 IV) from The Thames Set

Artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)

Date1858

Dimensions5 3/8 × 8 3/8 in. (13.7 × 21.3 cm)

Mediumetching

ClassificationPrints

Object number

1912.1194

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Description

Label TextThe 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.”Exhibition HistoryTMA show, Sept 12 - Nov 9 - 1999. TMA, Whistler: Influences, Friends, and the Not-So-Friendly, Feb. 26 - May 30, 2010.