The kitchen

The kitchen

Item Information

Title:
The kitchen
Description:
In a deep embrasure, in the far part of a dark roughly built kitchen with earthen floor and timbered ceiling, stands a woman looking out of a vine-bordered window. At her right is a long staff, placed against the wall. In front, at the right, is a basket near a dresser on which are two deep pans and above which, in racks on the wall, are pans and platters. On the opposite side are two jars on a high shelf, and there are jars in the embrasure beyond. Near the bottom of the plate, at the right, "Whistler."
Artist:
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Name on Item:
Whistler
Date:
[1858]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Lithographs, Etchings, and Drawings
Subjects:
Kitchens
Extent:
1 print : etching ; sheet 24 x 16 cm
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 24
Handwritten on item: One of twelve etchings from nature, French set. Very rare.
Additional information on item: "This was most likely made on the Alsatian journey. The Kitchen is evidently that of an old French farm-house." -Joseph Fennell.
Additional information accompanying item: Fifty impressions of this state were printed by Whistler, who then trimmed off the margins, except the part signed in pencil with the butterfly and "imp." the plate was then cancelled. Published by the Fine Art Society, in 1885.
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.
The plate is retouched with vertical lines in the left foreground; there is closer work at the right edge of it and short cross-lines on the beam at top, from centre to right.
Identifier:
17_14_000033
W. 294 (no longer used)
Barcode:
36666000188173