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JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER. The Lime-Burner (W. Jones, Lime-Burner, Thames Street)

JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER. The Lime-Burner (W. Jones, Lime-Burner, Thames Street). Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834-1903 London). Dimensions: Plate: 9 3/4 x 7 in. (24.8 x 17.8 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 10 1/16 in. (31.4 × 25.6 cm). Series/Portfolio: Thames Set ("A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects" 1871). Date: 1859. As he had in La Marchande de moutarde in 1858, Whistler here focuses on a humble business and uses the architecture to frame a receding interior. The proprietor, William Jones, leans against a barrel in his yard, near artfully arranged ladders. At left, a long passageway ends in a glimpse of the water of East London Wharf. Limeburners reduced chalk and limestone in kilns to produce a key ingredient for mortar and plaster. Whistler included this print in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects (the "Thames Set") in 1871.
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Author: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Title: The Lime-Burner (W. Jones, Lime-Burner, Thames Street)
Caption: The Lime-Burner (W. Jones, Lime-Burner, Thames Street). Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834-1903 London). Dimensions: Plate: 9 3/4 x 7 in. (24.8 x 17.8 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 10 1/16 in. (31.4 × 25.6 cm). Series/Portfolio: Thames Set ("A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects" 1871). Date: 1859. As he had in La Marchande de moutarde in 1858, Whistler here focuses on a humble business and uses the architecture to frame a receding interior. The proprietor, William Jones, leans against a barrel in his yard, near artfully arranged ladders. At left, a long passageway ends in a glimpse of the water of East London Wharf. Limeburners reduced chalk and limestone in kilns to produce a key ingredient for mortar and plaster. Whistler included this print in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects (the "Thames Set") in 1871.
Technique/material: Etching and drypoint; first state of two (Glasgow); warm black ink on ivory wove paper
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit: Album
Image size: 2924 × 4092 px | 34.2 MB
Print size: 24.8 × 34.6 cm | 1151.2 × 1611.0 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: DRAWINGS AND PRINTS • DRYPOINTS • ENGRAVED • ENGRAVING (ARTWORK) • ENGRAVING • ENGRAVING. • ENGRAVINGS • ETCHING AND DRYPOINT; FIRST STATE OF TWO (GLASGOW); WARM BLACK INK ON IVORY WOVE PAPER • ETCHING • INK • INTAGLIO PRINTS • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA • PAPER • PRINT • PRINTS • UNITED STATES • WHISTLER, JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL • WOVE PAPER