James McNeill Whistler
Charing Cross Railway Bridge
1896
Physical Qualities
Lithograph, Image: 130 x 210 mm. (5 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alfred R. and Henry G. Riggs in Memory of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1943.32.360
Whistler made his drawings on special paper supplied by his printer, Thomas Way, that allowed them to be printed the right way round once transferred to the lithographic stone. Their evanescence makes them seem almost like after-images, and they remain among the sparest works Whistler created. This view of Charing Cross Bridge is part of a series of transfer lithographs that would be Whistler’s last views of the Thames.
Collection stamp of Gen. Lawrason Riggs on back.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Prints of James A. McNeill Whistler from the Museum Collection," February 14-April 1, 1984.
"Claude Monet and Modernist London: Reflections on the Thames", Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, Florida, January 16, 2005 through April 17, 2005; tour to Brooklyn Museum of Art, June 29, 2005 - September 4, 2005; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 2, 2005 - January 31, 2006.
"Claude Monet and Modernist London: Reflections on the Thames", Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg, Florida, January 16, 2005 through April 17, 2005; tour to Brooklyn Museum of Art, June 29, 2005 - September 4, 2005; The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 2, 2005 - January 31, 2006.
Inscribed: Signed with butterfly at middle of plate, to left of center.
Markings: laurel tree in cartouche with A B
