Limehouse

Title from catalogue raisonné. Alternative title from item. Way: W. 4 Additional information accompanying item: Drawn at Limehouse on the stone direct. Published in "notes." Drawing erased. The first state of this, of which a few copies were printed, is very dull and uninteresting in effect, the sky having printed far too dark, while the buildings are wanting in the richness of color which was afterwards attained. By means of the scraper and re-etching, as well as some darkening of the buildings, notably on the high pointed roof to the right, the true relation of the various parts was obtained. Date from catalogue raisonné. Way, Thomas R. (Thomas Robert). "The lithographs of James McNeill Whistler ; Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi, general editors." Art Institute of Chicago in association with the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, 1998, Chicago.