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Sketching #1
ca. early 186019th century
4 3/8 in. x 6 1/8 in. (11.11 cm x 15.56 cm)
James Whistler (aka James Abbott McNeill Whistler), American, (1834–1903)
Object Type:
Prints
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
Etching on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection
Accession Number:
1998.150
This print was made during an outing on the Thames in Sunbury, a southern suburb of London, with Whistler accompanied by Haden and French painter and etcher Henri Fantin-Latour. Over the course of his long career, Whistler frequently worked en plein-air quickly capturing a scene by drawing directly on a copper plate.
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19th Century,
American*,
etching (printing process)*,
etchings (prints)*,
paper (fiber product)*,
prints (visual works)*
- 19th Century
- American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
- etching (printing process) - Intaglio process in which the design is worked into an acid-resistant substance coating the metal printing plate; the plate is then exposed to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed, to create lines and dark areas. For the single step of exposing the plate to acid, use "biting."
- etchings (prints) - Prints made from an etched printing plate, which is a metal plate on which a design is made by coating the plate with an acid-resistant substance, creating a design in the coating, and then exposing the plate to acid, which etches the plate where the metal is exposed. For designs incised directly into a copper plate using a burin or graver, use "engravings (prints)."
- paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
- prints (visual works) - Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use just "prints." With regard to photographs, see "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
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Dimensions
- image Dimensions: 4 3/8 x 6 1/8 in. (111 x 156 mm)