Early Morning, Battersea (Battersea Dawn) (Cadogan Pier)

James McNeill Whistler American

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Whistler here responds to the calm of the Thames at dawn, placing a beached rowboat across the foreground , and small sailboats clustered around a wooden dock at center. Beyond is a wooden ferry terminal on Cadogan Pier and Battersea Bridge extending across the river. Drypoint was combined with etching to create soft effects evocative of misty water under an overcast sky. The was like finished in 1863, and published in 1871 in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects (the "Thames Set").

Early Morning, Battersea (Battersea Dawn) (Cadogan Pier), James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on cream laid Japan; second state of two (Glasgow)

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Early Morning, Battersea (Battersea Dawn) (Cadogan Pier), James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on cream laid Japan; second state of two (Glasgow)
Early Morning, Battersea (Battersea Dawn) (Cadogan Pier), James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on cream laid Japan; second state of two (Glasgow)

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