The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

After Whistler, The Nun in 'Count Burkhardt', Once a Week, 1862

The Nun in 'Count Burkhardt' (illustrating a poem by 'E. L') was engraved, possibly by Joseph Swain, and published in Once a Week on 27 September 1862.

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 306).

Images

Subject

Sitter

After Whistler, The Nun in 'Count Burkhardt', Once a Week, 1862

Joanna Hiffernan (b. ca 1843-d.1886)

Technique

Technique

After Whistler, The Nun in 'Count Burkhardt', Once a Week, 1862

The drawing is only known from the wood engraving.

History

Provenance

• 1862: the drawing was engraved, possibly by Joseph Swain, and published in Once a Week, London, on 27 September.

There is no further record of it.

Exhibitions

The drawing was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 306) as "The Nun in 'Count Burkhardt' ".

Journals 1855-1905

• E. L., 'Count Burkhardt', Once a Week, vol. 7, 27 September 1862, pp. 376-78, woodcut repr. p. 378.

Books on Whistler

• MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Joanna Hiffernan and James Whistler: an Artistic Partnership' in Margaret F. MacDonald (ed.), The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and Washington, 2020, pp. 15-31.
• de Montfort, Patricia, ' “A Great Sensation”: Women in White in Late Victorian Literature and Popular Culture' in Margaret F. MacDonald (ed.), The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and Washington, 2020, pp. 147-156.