Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate, 1854–55, Etching; only state (Glasgow); printed in black ink on a complete sheet of linen-textured ivory laid paper with MBM watermark appearing twice, Plate: 5 3/4 x 10 3/16 in. (14.6 x 25.9 cm), Prints, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), Whistler made his first etching while employed as a draftsman at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington, D.C., between 1854 and 1855. A staff member taught him the technique and supplied him with a copper plate, on which he etched topographic renderings of coastlines, then sketched freely drawn figures, and an oval vignette representing 'Mrs
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Sketches, Coast Survey Plate, 1854–55, Etching, state, Glasgow, printed, black ink, complete sheet, linen-textured ivory laid paper, MBM watermark appearing twice, Plate, 5 3/4 x 10 3/16, 14.6 25.9 cm, Prints, James McNeill Whistler, American, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834–1903, London, Whistler, first etching, employed, draftsman, U.S, Coast, Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C, 1854, 1855, staff member taught, technique, supplied, copper plate, etched topographic, renderings, coastlines, sketched freely, drawn, figures, oval vignette, representing, Mrs
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