Artwork Details
6-11/16 x 10-1/4 in. (image) 13-1/2 x 19-1/4 in. (sheet)
Mark DescriptionSigned, butterfly signature in stone, l.r.
Accession NumberGift in memory of Kurt F. Pantzer, Sr.
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteWhistler began painting "Moonlights" (later called "Nocturnes") in the late 1860s. In 1878, he captured one such effect of the warehouses at Battersea across the Thames from his residence in Chelsea. It is a lithotint-a process in which a mid-tone grain is applied to the lithographic stone in advance allowing the artist to simply reinforce shadows and scrape out highlights.
"And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall buildings become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces of the night."
-J.A.M. Whistler, 1888
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
British Qualities: Works on Paper, 1875-1930
Indianapolis Museum of Art
February 16, 2008 - July 13, 2008
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