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Ratcliffe Highway (© Hunterian Art Gallery)
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© Hunterian Art Gallery

Ratcliffe Highway

Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903)

Location: Hunterian Art Gallery

Date: 1861

Materials: etching

Dimensions: 15.5 x 21.7cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £2,080 (Total: £5,200)

Vendor: Susan Schulman Printsellers

Review number: 4962 (2001)

Provenance:
J.H. Hutchinson;BB MacGeorge, sold 1902; Howard Mansfield; Harris G Whittemore; William Sloane-Kinney; Schulman/Bullard, New York.

Description:
An early work showing how Whistler used the etching needle and plate like a sketchbook to select and record figure studies, perhaps as a preparation for a more finished composition.

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