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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in plate; b.r. "Whistler 1861."
(2) inscr. on flyleaf of volume; "S. t 434 / 789 / R Dunthorne"
(3) inscr. on binding of volume; "WHISTLER'S ETCHINGS" CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PUB Fine Art Society; (London) Whistler was seriously ill with Rheumatic Fever in July of 1861. By August he had recovered enough to visit his friends Edwin and Ruth Edwards at their home in Sunbury, near Hampton Court. It was during this visit that Whistler made "Landscape with a Fisherman". The style of the etchings made by Whistler during the summer of 1861 is much looser than previous works, reflecting the influence of artists such as Corot and Daubigny. The original state of this drypoint was published by the Fine Art Society in 1879. This impression was taken from the cancelled plate and bound in a volume with GLAHA 49975 - 50030, with a description by Rosalind Birnie Philip of how she came by them. This volume of cancelled impressions was formed as evidence that the plates themselves had been cancelled. The etching plate for this work is also in the Hunterian collection (GLAHA 50308). (See also GLAHA 49938 - 49971/49973/49974).
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 : RIVERSCAPE : THAMES : 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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