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Description: | Royal Watermark: ". . . ON" (incomplete) CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) Nellie Farren (1848-1904) was a popular dancer, acrobat and 'principal boy'. She starred in Henry James Byron's farce "Little Doctor Faust" at the Gaiety Theatre, London. Whistler saw this play and another called "The Grasshopper" on 7 January, 1878 and was enthralled by both. The shape of the figure in the study is reminiscent of his drawings of Connie Gilchrist. Other drawings by Whistler which relate to "Little Doctor Faust" are in the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, U.S.A. (MacDonald 1995 (667-668)). (See also GLAHA 46074 - 46077).
Birnie Philip Bequest 1958. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | DANCER : ACROBAT : PRINCIPAL BOY : DOCTOR FAUSTUS : HENRY JAMES BYRON : PORTRAIT : NELLIE FARREN : WHISTLER CENTENARY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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