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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Rotherhithe.
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 1860. 277x202 mm; 10 3/4x7 7/8 inches, small (full ?) margins. First state (of 3), with the hull of the boat in the center foreground blank. A brilliant, richly-inked and early impression, with all the delicate lines in the sky printing clearly, with burr throughout and with strong contrasts overall; extremely scarce in this early state.
Rotherhithe is opposite Wapping on the banks of the Thames. The composition for this etching, along with The Lime-Burner (lots 31 and 32) the two most complex views in the "Thames Set,' is related to Whistler's painting Wapping, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (one of two major oils he created in the 1860s, the other is The White Girl, see lot 64).
Both the painting and the etching show the balcony of the Angel, a Rotherhithe inn, overlooking the Thames, with foreground figures surrounded by an intricate mass of ropes and masts. Kennedy 66.
