Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-336
Artist: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Date: 1877
State: 3/5
Size: 14.6 x 22.2 cm
Medium: Drypoint
| Alternative Title(s) |
Battersea, Morn |
| Details |
Drypoint. Black ink on buff coloured Asian paper. Butterfly signature at top right. Around fourteen impressions are known. |
| Description |
Detailed information concerning the Whistler prints held in The Orchar Collection comes from the University of Glasgow’s excellent Whistler Etchings Project. (Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk). Considerable thanks are due to Professor MacDonald for allowing us to use their research in these entries.
A view of Battersea, looking across the Thames from Chelsea. |
| Catalogue Entry |
- Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler. New York, Grolier Club, 1910 (155)
- Howard Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1909 (152)
- Sir Frederick Wedmore, Whistler’s Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue. London, Thibaudeau, 1886 (125)
- Whistler Etchings Project (174)
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| Other Collections (UK) |
- Hunterian Art Gallery Collections, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
See the Whistler Etchings Project for a list of impressions. |
| References |
- Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionary of Artists. Paris, Gründ, 2006
- Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979
- Kenneth M. Guichard, British Etchers 1850-1940. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1977
- Katharine A. Lochnan, The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1984
- Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995
- William Rough, ‘A cluster of butterflies: James Guthrie Orchar and his collection of Whistler etchings and drypoints’, Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, Volume 16, 2011-12
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