Black Lion Wharf, 1859, Etching; fourth state of four (Glasgow), Sheet: 11 7/16 ? 16 1/8 in. (29 ? 41 cm), Prints, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834?1903 London), When he moved to London in 1859, Whistler lodged near the Thames in the docklands south of Tower Bridge and began to make etchings of the river. New visual modes are explored here, with cropped forms and distinct spatial zones recalling Japanese woodblock prints?a genre he began collecting in Paris