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Greenwich Park

1859
Not on view
Whistler travelled down the Thames to find subject this subject of a shaded lawn at Greenwich, visiting the park with his etcher brother-in-law Seymour Haden. Both created prints that show a naval pensioner from the nearby Royal Hospital for Seamen relaxing on the grass (Whister's titled "Greenwich Pensioner" (17.3.27) and Haden's "Sub Tegmine" (Under the Canopy; 17.3.276). The Met has two other impressions of "Greenwich Park" (17.3.28, 17.21.71).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Greenwich Park
  • Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)
  • Date: 1859
  • Medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on medium weight off-white laid paper; third state of three (Glasgow)
  • Dimensions: Plate: 4 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (12.6 × 20.2 cm)
    Sheet: 9 5/16 × 10 7/8 in. (23.7 × 27.6 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library
  • Object Number: 83.1.22
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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