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Longshore men
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About this work
In Whistler's day, genteel people who could afford to purchase etchings generally avoided unnecessary trips to working-class sections of cities. For such people, Whistler's etchings of the Thames riverfront provided unusually intimate glimpses of what a contemporary critic described as "that class of hard-fisted, square-shouldered, solid-faced men, on whom the odour of tar and tobacco is equally important."
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Credit lineLongshore men. 1859. James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
