Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-325
Artist: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Date: 1879
State: 4/4
Size: 13.7 x 20 cm
Medium: Etching
| Details | Etching. Black ink on ivory coloured wove paper. Butterfly signature on left. Over forty 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.
The location is on the Thames in Fulham, west London. It was, and still is, a popular area for boating activities. |
| Exhibited Dundee | An impression of Hurlingham was exhibited by the Fine Art Society at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, Albert Institute, 1882 (Hall, No. 1715 £3.3). It is possible that it was this impression that was exhibited and that Orchar bought it during the exhibition. Dundee Fine Art Exhibition Catalogue 1882, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum. |
| Catalogue Entry | i. Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler. New York, Grolier Club, 1910 (181) ii. Howard Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1909 (178) iii. Sir Frederick Wedmore, Whistler’s Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue. London, Thibaudeau, 1886 (147) iv. Whistler Etchings Project (184) |
| Other Collections (UK) | i. Glasgow Museums, Glasgow ii. Hunterian Art Gallery Collections, University of Glasgow, Glasgow iii. National Maritime Museum, London iv. Walker Art Gallery, LiverpoolSee the Whistler Etchings Project for a list of impressions. |
| References | i. Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionary of Artists. Paris, Gründ, 2006 ii. Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979 iii. Kenneth M. Guichard, British Etchers 1850-1940. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1977 iv. Katharine A. Lochnan, The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1984 v. Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995 vi. 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 |