Billingsgate
Artist:
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(1834 - 1903)
Date: 1859
Medium: etching
Dimensions:
6 in x 8 7/8 in
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Bequest to UVM and The Fleming Museum Harriet Walker-Lamb, widow of Charles E. Lamb UVM class of 1893, in memory of Walter Cambridge
Object number: 1966.6.5
DescriptionOn a barge in front, at the left two men are standing and three are seated; beyond, fishing smacks with swaying masts, some with sails partly raised, are laying side by side, moored to a great post out in the Thames; on the stone embankment at the left, reached by a landing-bridge protected by tall guard piles, rise the clock-tower and adjoining buildings of Billingsgate Market; farther away is London Bridge; and above buildings at the right is a square church tower; people crowd the boats, pass up and down the landing-bridge, at the foot of which stands a tall slender man
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