Old Hungerford Bridge

Old Hungerford Bridge

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-338

Artist: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill

Date: 1861

State: 3/4

Size: 14.0 x 21.3 cm

Medium: Etching

Details Etching. Black ink on ivory coloured laid paper. ‘Whistler’ inscribed bottom right. 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.

Early impressions were published in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames (‘The Thames Set’) by Ellis & Green in 1871. The scene depicts the old Hungerford suspension bridge.
Exhibited Dundee An impression titled Hungerford was exhibited at the Dundee Fine Art Exhibition, Albert Institute in 1880 (Fourth Gallery, No. 882, no price) and either already in Orchar’s collection or subsequently bought by him. Dundee Fine Art Exhibition Catalogue 1880, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum.
Catalogue Entry
  1. Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler. New York, Grolier Club, 1910 (76)
  2. Howard Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1909 (76)
  3. Ralph Thomas, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of J.A M. Whistler. London, John Russell Smith, 1874 (37)
  4. Sir Frederick Wedmore, Whistler’s Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue. London, Thibaudeau, 1886 (80)
  5. Whistler Etchings Project (76)
Other Collections (UK)
  1. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
  2. British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London
  3. Hunterian Art Gallery Collections, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
  4. Museum of London, London
  5. National Maritime Museum, London
  6. Victoria and Albert Museum: Print Collection, London
  7. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

See the Whistler Etchings Project for a list of impressions.
References
  1. Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionary of Artists. Paris, Gründ, 2006
  2. Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979
  3. Kenneth M. Guichard, British Etchers 1850-1940. London, Robin Garton Ltd., 1977
  4. Katharine A. Lochnan, The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1984
  5. Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995
  6. 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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