Title:The Lime-Burner
Artist:James McNeill Whistler
Date:1859
Creation Place:North America, United States
Credit Line:The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916
Accession Number:P.4,542
Artist:James McNeill Whistler
Date:1859
Creation Place:North America, United States
Credit Line:The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916
Accession Number:P.4,542
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1860 under the title W. Jones, Lime-burner, Thames Street, this etching portrays one of the many lower class laborers of the disappearing docksides of London.