The Landscape with a Horse

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-326

Artist: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill

Date: 1859

State: 1/2

Size: 12.7 x 20 cm

Medium: Etching

Details Etching. Black ink on dark cream wove paper. ‘Whistler 1859’ bottom left.A rare piece. Although over twenty impressions of the second state are known less than ten of the first state have been located.
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.

On one of the first impressions (see the Whistler Etchings Project) was written ‘Paysage a cheval – France’. It is also possible that the location is Greenwich Park. It has also been suggested that the child is Francis Seymour Haden, Jr.

Catalogue Entry
  1. Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler. New York, Grolier Club, 1910 (36)
  2. Howard Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1909 (35)
  3. Ralph Thomas, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of J.A M. Whistler. London, John Russell Smith, 1874 (23)
  4. Sir Frederick Wedmore, Whistler’s Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue. London, Thibaudeau, 1886 (46)
  5. Whistler Etchings Project (45)
Other Collections (UK)
  1. British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London
  2. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  3. Hunterian Art Gallery Collections, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
  4. Victoria and Albert Museum: Print Collection, London
  5. 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