Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-347
Artist: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Date: 1858/59
State: 2/3
Size: 13.3 x 9.5 cm
Medium: Etching
| Details |
Etching. Black ink on laid paper. Signature in print bottom right ‘Whistler’. Over a dozen 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 portrait of Francis Seymour Haden Jr. (1850-1918) who was the eldest son of Whistler’s half-sister Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) and Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910).
It was likely drawn in either autumn 1858 or Spring 1859 during Whistler’s stay at Haden’s home in Sloane Street, London. The location is possibly Greenwich Park. |
| Catalogue Entry |
- Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler. New York, Grolier Club, 1910 (31)
- Howard Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1909 (32)
- Ralph Thomas, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of J.A M. Whistler. London, John Russell Smith, 1874 (17)
- Sir Frederick Wedmore, Whistler’s Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue. London, Thibaudeau, 1886 (23)
- Whistler Etchings Project (30)
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| Other Collections (UK) |
- British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London
- Hunterian Art Gallery Collections, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
- Victoria and Albert Museum: Print Collection, London
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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