Portsmouth children

Portsmouth children

Item Information

Title:
Portsmouth children
Description:
In the foreground and at the right, children are playing on a beach, upon which boats with raised sails lie stranded. In the distance, across a sheet of water, are numerous boats under sail. The butterfly, in outline, is in the right lower corner.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
1887
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Marine prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Bodies of water
Boats
Children
Places:
England > Portsmouth (county) > Portsmouth
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 7 x 10 cm
Permalink:
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 323
Additional information accompanying item: No. 7 of the Naval Review series. This plate (with 11 others) was etched in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the reign of Queen Victoria, July 27, 1887. The letter he addressed to the Right Honourable W. H. Smith, then first Lord of the Admiralty, in connection with the presentation of this set of etchings to the Queen, gives a good idea of Whistler's "official" style.
Notes (ownership):
From the B. MacGeorge, Kennedy, and H. H. Benedict Collections.
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Kennedy, Edward G. (Edward Guthrie). "The etched work of Whistler ; compiled, arranged and described by Edward G. Kennedy, with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
Only state.
Identifier:
17_14_000234
W. 376 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000188926