James McNeill Whistler

View of a Coast Line (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)

1854–55

Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.

1.6 × 10.8 cm (0.6 × 4.3 in)