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Old Westminster Bridge | ||
Number: | 47 | |
Date: | 1859 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 76 x 204 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower left | |
Inscribed: | '1859' at lower left | |
Set/Publication: | 'Thames Set', 1871 | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 75 | |
Catalogues: | K.39; M.38; T.36; W.36 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (75) |
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'Old Westminster Bridge' (1863, R.A.). 1
'Old Westminster Bridge' (1863, Whistler). 2
'Old Westminster Bridge' (1871, Ellis & Green). 3
'Old Westminster Bridge' (1874, Whistler). 4
'The Houses of Parliament' (1874, Ralph Thomas, Jr (1840-1876)). 5
'The Houses of Parliament, with a View of Old Westminster Bridge' (1874, James Anderson Rose (1819-1890)). 6
'The Houses of Parliament, and Westminster Bridge' (1881, Union League Club). 7
'Houses of Parliament' (1887, Whistler). 8
'Westminster Bridge' (1886, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 9
'Old Westminster Bridge' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 10
It is also worth noting that the title 'Old Westminster Bridge' is incised on the verso of the copper plate, but not necessarily by Whistler - this may have been a much later record, possibly done when the plate was given by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) to the University of Glasgow in 1935.
'Old Westminster Bridge' is, however, Whistler's preferred title, as published in the 'Thames Set' in 1871.
1: London RA 1863 (cat. no. 952).
2: Whistler to W. H. Carpenter, 3 August 1863, GUW #11109.
3: A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames.
4: London Pall Mall 1874 (cat. no. 11).
5: Thomas 1874 (cat. no. 36).
6: Liverpool 1874 (cat. no. 489).
7: New York 1881 (cat. no. 54).
8: Whistler to Craibe Angus, 9 May and 8 August 1887, GUW #13098, #13045.
9: Wedmore 1886 A (cat. no. 36).
10: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 38).
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DISCUSSION
Lochnan commented : 'two small plates, Thames Warehouses ... and Old Westminster Bridge, ... which recall both in subject and style Hollar's views of London along the Thames, ... were well represented in the Haden collection.' 12
11: M.DC.LXVI, Museum of London, acc. no. A24656; copy after Hollar, ca 1646, British Museum 1868,0822.337; see Thames Warehouses [46].
12: Lochnan 1984 , p. 76.