| Details |
Etching. Black ink on ivory coloured laid paper. On barge at bottom left (D) ‘ELIGHT 1861’. Over sixty 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.
Whistler etched a number of scenes of the Thames in 1861. This view is taken from Millbank looking north-west. The towers of Lambeth Palace can just be seen in the distance.
Earlier impressions have inscribed along the lower right: ‘The Works of James Whistler: Etchings and Dry Points, are on View at E. Thomas’ .. Publisher 39. Old Bond Street London.’ This is erased by state 5. |
| Catalogue Entry |
- Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler. New York, Grolier Club, 1910 (71)
- Howard Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1909 (71)
- Ralph Thomas, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of J.A M. Whistler. London, John Russell Smith, 1874 (44)
- Sir Frederick Wedmore, Whistler’s Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue. London, Thibaudeau, 1886 (67)
- Whistler Etchings Project (78)
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| Other Collections (UK) |
- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
- British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Hunterian Art Gallery Collections, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
- Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
- National Maritime Museum, London
- Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
- Victoria and Albert Museum: Print Collection, London
- Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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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