Early Morning, Battersea from "The Thames Set

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Early Morning, Battersea from "The Thames Set

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

Date1861

DimensionsSheet: 6 × 7 3/4 in. (15.2 × 19.7 cm)

Mediumetching and drypoint

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineBequest of Barbara Reed

Object number

2022.5

Not on View

DescriptionHere, the River Thames is depicted in Chelsea with the Cadogan Pier and in the background Battersea Bridge. Boats are moored along the pier and barges and a paddle steamer move along the river. In the immediate foreground, a rowboat rests along the shore the Thames. The sky consumes half of the etching with several angled lines indicating an overcast day.

Published ReferencesWedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue , London, 1886, cat. no. 72.

Mansfield, Howard, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler , Chicago, 1909, cat. no. 73.

Kennedy, Edward G., The Etched Work of Whistler New York, 1910, cat. no. 74.