Swinburne

Swinburne

Item Information

Title:
Swinburne
Description:
Sketched high on the plate is a full-face portrait of the poet, with lefty forehead, thin hair, a moustache, and scanty beard, the shoulders being merely indicated. There is strong shading in the background, about the head and shoulders. The lower half of the plate is left entirely blank. The plate is unsigned.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
[1873–1877]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Drypoints
Portrait prints
Cancellation proofs
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Extent:
1 print : drypoint ; plate mark 28 x 19 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 136
Additional information accompanying item: Included in "Etchings by J. M. Whistler from the cancelled plates." That Whistler originally intended this drypoint as a portrait of F. R. Leyland is quite plain. Possibly after the famous quarrel, he altered it to that of Swinburne -- not very successfully. Both impressions are extremely rare.
Notes (date):
Date supplied by cataloger.
This date is inferred.
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):
From an impression from the cancelled plate.
Identifier:
17_14_000097
Barcode:
36666000099586