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Description: | Unmounted (1) inscr. on flyleaf of volume; "S. t 434 / 789 / R Dunthorne"
(2) inscr. on binding of volume; "WHISTLER'S ETCHINGS" CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PUB Fine Art Society; (London) Whistler returned to the River Thames as a subject for both etching and lithography in the late 1870s and this image probably dates from this time. The view is of riverside warehouses seen across the somewhat rough waters of the Thames. At this time, Whistler was very much occupied with capturing a degree of atmosphere in his work and within this composition he manages to convey a sense of the running water, rising high against the banks. The etching was published by the Fine Art Society in 1879. This impression was taken from the cancelled plate and was bound in a volume with GLAHA 49975 - 50030, with a description by Rosalind Birnie Philip of how she came by them. The volume of cancelled impressions was fromed as evidence that the plates themselves had been cancelled. The etching plate for this work is also in the Hunterian collection (GLAHA 50536). (See also GLAHA 49938-49971/49973/49974/50535).
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: | CANCELLED PLATE : THAMES : RIVERSCAPE : STEAMER : FACTORIES : WAREHOUSES : PADDLESTEAMER : 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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