Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.1022
Trafalgar Square

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: Rosenwald Collection, Library Of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685410
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: off-white wove paper, v.: red printed heading of 'DOWDESWELL & DOWDESWELL, / FINE ART PUBLISHERS / ... 133, NEW BOND STREET, / ...'
Size: 8 7/8 x 5 1/4" (225 x 134 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: "Prichard's Ch" [emists?] v.: 'Plan of a proposed plate in Mezzo tint of Trafalgar Square from the window of a chemist in Cockspur Street or Trafalgar Square - Advertised as "one of London's most important Highways"- Plate was commenced in 65 [sic] but never finished up to this date 30/9/87', written by Charles Dowdeswell

Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square dates from about 1885. According to Charles Dowdeswell (1856?-1921), writing in 1887, it was a proposal for a mezzotint of Trafalgar Square, which was started but never, as far as is known, completed. 1

Trafalgar Square, Library of Congress
Trafalgar Square, Library of Congress

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1022). The record has been updated.

Notes:

1: C. Dowdeswell, note, 30 September 1887, GUW #08720. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, online website: Trafalgar Square, mezzotint, in G.249.

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