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Description: | Unframed CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) This is an etching plate. Whistler returned to the River Thames as a subject for both etching and lithography in the late 1870s and this image dates from that time. In "Steamboat Fleet" Whistler probably worked with a diamond-tipped needle in order to achieve the thinnest possible lines. The ghostly atmosphere of the printed work successfully evokes the half-light of dawn, reflecting ideas already explored by Whistler in such works as "Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Cremorne Lights" (Y115) Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. This view is from the artist's house on Lindsey Row. (See also GLAHA 50010/50540).
Birnie Philip Gift, 1935, not lendable. | 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 : BATTERSEA REACH : BARGES : 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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