Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-346
Artist: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Date: 1861
State: 9/9
Size: 10.2 x 12.7 cm
Medium: Etching and Drypoint
| Details |
Etching and drypoint. Black ink on off-white coloured laid paper. ‘Whistler 1861’ far left. Over seventy 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.
Published in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames (‘The Thames Set’) by Ellis & Green in 1871. It was originally intended as a title page for ‘The Thames Set’ but was rejected. Early impressions still have the inscription ‘The Works of James Whistler: Etchings and Dry Points, are on View at E. Thomas’ Publisher. 39 Old Bond Street’ in the space across the bottom.
Whistler would return to the same area for the Tiny Pool and Wapping – The Pool an impression of which is also in The Orchar Collection. |
| Catalogue Entry |
- Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler. New York, Grolier Club, 1910 (74)
- Howard Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1909 (73)
- Ralph Thomas, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of J.A M. Whistler. London, John Russell Smith, 1874 (48)
- Sir Frederick Wedmore, Whistler’s Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue. London, Thibaudeau, 1886 (72)
- Whistler Etchings Project (79)
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| Other Collections (UK) |
- British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London (7 impressions)
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Hunterian Art Gallery Collections, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
- Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
- 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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