Long house - Dyer's - Amsterdam

Long house - Dyer's - Amsterdam

Item Information

Title:
Long house - Dyer's - Amsterdam
Title (alt.):
Long House Dyers, Amsterdam
Description:
On a dilapidated bulkhead, the border of a canal, is a long brick building, with irregular windows above, and a row of doorways and adjacent windows below. Near the center, a shed with a singles window is built to the edge of the bulkhead, to which, on either hand, rude palings are fastened. A woman is standing in the doorway at the left, in front of which a woman is bending over, cleaning a basin. A child is leaning over palings at the right. There are extensive reflections in the canal. The butterfly, shaded, is on the lower part of the shed.
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Date:
[1889]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Buildings
Canals
Places:
Netherlands > North Holland (province) > Amsterdam
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 17 x 27 cm
Permalink:
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Alternative title from item.
Kennedy: K. 406
Additional information on item: This is a superb example of Whistler's last period, and is amongst the rarest, or perhaps the very rarest, of his great plates of the Amsterdam series. It is about the finest subject in the series from an artistic point of view.
Notes (ownership):
From the H. Whittemore Collection.
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):
Third state of three.
There is new work at upper left; the lower pane of the window to the left of the woman standing in the doorway, which was black in [state] II, is now lightened in the lower part. In right centre, at bottom, almost vertical lines, about an inch in length, cover the shorter ones already existing (H. Mansfield).
Identifier:
17_14_000219
W. 299 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000185765