The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Sketch of the etching, 'Landscape with Horses' is drawn on the verso of a partial draft of the Ten o'clock Lecture, which dates from about February 1885. The etching dated from 1859.

Sketch of the etching, 'Landscape with Horses', Glasgow University Library

Landscape with Horses, etching, The Hunterian, GLAHA 46725

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 996) as 'Sketch of an etching, 'The Meadow'. This entry has been revised.

Images

Subject

Description

Sketch of the etching, 'Landscape with Horses, Glasgow University Library

Whistler's sketch is very rough: it shows a horse in a field, a man up on a pole at right, and buildings in the distance.

Technique

Composition

Sketch of the etching, 'Landscape with Horses, Glasgow University Library

Landscape with Horses, etching, The Hunterian, GLAHA 46725

This is a sketch of Landscape with Horses [45], an etching and drypoint dating from 1859: the print is fairly rare and Whistler did not have the copper plate nor a single impression of it. Some impressions were probably owned by members of his family (in fact one of these came from Joseph Whistler Revillon (1886-1955) to the Whistler collection in the Hunterian, University of Glasgow), two were in the British Museum, and several in private collections. ¹

Technique

Sketch of the etching, 'Landscape with Horses, Glasgow University Library

Landscape with Horses, etching, The Hunterian, GLAHA 46725

Whistler's very summary sketch may have been drawn from memory, and was not particularly accurate. It omits the foreground figure, a second horse, and the other buildings and trees in the distance.

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1955: given by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

It has not been exhibited.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 996) as "Sketch of the etching, 'Landscape with Horses' ".

Websites

• Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, online website (G.45).