| Details |
Etching. Black ink on ivory, probably wove, paper. ‘Whistler 1859’ at bottom centre of print. Over seventy 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.
This etching was published in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames (‘The Thames Set’) by Ellis & Green in 1871.
Eagle Wharf was located in Wapping on the banks of the Thames. Whistler made a number or etchings of the immediate area in 1859 during his residence in the area between August and October.
On the signboards on the left can be read the names of the businesses ‘Tyzac, Whiteley & Co.’, ‘W. Brown Sail Maker, Shipowner’ and ‘Eagle Wharf’. |
| Catalogue Entry |
- Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler. New York, Grolier Club, 1910 (41)
- Howard Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1909 (40)
- Ralph Thomas, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of J.A M. Whistler. London, John Russell Smith, 1874 (40)
- Sir Frederick Wedmore, Whistler’s Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue. London, Thibaudeau, 1886 (39)
- Whistler Etchings Project (50)
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| Other Collections (UK) |
- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
- British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, UK
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
- Hunterian Art Gallery Collections, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Museum of London, London, UK
- Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
- Victoria and Albert Museum: Print Collection, London, UK
- Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
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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