29. Thomas R. Way
(1862-1913)

Sailing Ship on the Thames

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Way, Sailing Ship

Sailing Ship on the Thames

Color lithograph, 1890s, 141 x 179 mm. Fine impression on wove paper with narrow margins, tipped down to a sheet of grey paper; crease marks at the lower right. Thomas R. Way was the son of the Thomas Way whose firm printed Whistler's lithographs and himself the author of the catalog-raisonné of the Whistler lithographs. He worked for his father's firm and was Whistler's preferred contact there until an inevitable misunderstanding led to a rupture between them. Way did a series of lithographic views of the Thames, both color and black and white, that show the influence more of Whistler's lithotints of the 70s than of any of the later lithographs.