Trafalgar Square | ||
Number: | 249 | |
Date: | 1885 | |
Medium: | mezzotint | |
Size: | unknown mm | |
Signed: | unknown | |
Inscribed: | unknown | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 0 | |
Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
Impressions taken from this plate (0) |
A mezzotint of Trafalgar Square probably dated from 1885.
Charles Dowdeswell (1856?-1921), writing in 1887, remembered it as being started in 1885; he recorded beside a sketch by Whistler:
Charles Dowdeswell (1856?-1921), writing in 1887, remembered it as being started in 1885; he recorded beside a sketch by Whistler:
'Plan of a proposed plate in Mezzo tint of Trafalgar Square from the window of a chemist in Cockspur Street or Trafalgar Square - Advertised as "one of London's most important Highways" - Plate was commenced in 85 but never finished up to this date /
Prichards Ch[emist]'.
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No such plate or mezzotint has survived. However there is further evidence for Whistler being involved in a mezzotint at that time, because in a letter written in 1885/1886 from Whistler thanked Frank Miles (1852-1894) for 'sending the Mezzo tint scraper'.
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2: Whistler to F. Miles, [1885/1886?], GUW #08105.