The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
YMSM 447
Landscape, Lyme Regis
Date
Landscape, Lyme Regis dates from Whistler's stay in Dorset in 1895. 1 In September 1895 Whistler wrote from Lyme Regis to E. G. Kennedy of Wunderlich's, New York, offering him 'A lovely little landscape.' 2 It may have been the 'Landscape' bought by Wunderlich's from Whistler on 3 July 1897 for £60. 3 It is not known to which landscape Whistler was referring in 1895, nor in 1897, and it is not certain they were the same one, nor what has become of it/them.
Most of his work at Lyme Regis consisted of portraits and street scenes (including Rose and Red: The Barber's Shop, Lyme Regis y444, The Little Rose of Lyme Regis y449, The Master Smith of Lyme Regis y450). The price paid in 1897 was unusually low, lower than Whistler's usual prices for watercolours and pastels.
Images
Landscape, Lyme Regis, Whereabouts unknown
Ajaccio, Corsica, Fogg Art Museum
Subject
Titles
Only one title has been suggested:
- 'Landscape, Lyme Regis' (1980, YMSM).
Description
Unknown.
Site
Lyme Regis is in Dorset (on the south coast of England). No landscapes have been identified as coming from there.
Ajaccio, Corsica, Fogg Art Museum
However, it is just possible that Landscape, Lyme Regis is the small panel known as Ajaccio, Corsica y546.
Technique
Technique
Unknown.
Conservation History
Unknown.
Frame
Unknown.
History
Provenance
- 1895: offered by the artist to the New York dealer, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932).
In September 1895 Whistler wrote from Lyme Regis to E. G. Kennedy offering him 'A lovely little landscape.' 4 It may have been the 'Landscape' bought by Wunderlich's from Whistler on 3 July 1897 for £60.0.0. 5
Exhibitions
It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime as far as is known.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 447) as 'Landscape, Lyme Regis'.
Authored by Whistler
- None.
Catalogues 1855-1905
- None.
Journals 1855-1905
- None.
Monographs
- None.
Books on Whistler
- None.
Books, General
- None.
Catalogues 1906-Present
- None.
Journals 1906-Present
- None.
Websites
- None.
Unpublished
- None.
Other
- None.
Notes:
1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 447).
2: [12 September 1895], GUW #07258.
3: GUW #07285.
4: [12 September 1895], GUW #07258.
5: GUW #07285.