Greenwich Park

Catalogue number: SO 0042
Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Printer: Auguste Delâtre
Date: 1859
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 208 x 128 mm
Catalogues: Kennedy 35, Glasgow 41
State: III/III

Subject

A view of a corner of Greenwich Park in south east London with an adult woman and three children seen between the trunks of two trees. Whistler and Haden made a number of etchings in Greenwich during the summer of 1859, and it is reasonable to speculate that the three figures represent either Deborah Delano Haden or a nursemaid and the three Haden children, Annie, Seymour and Arthur. Much Like Haden's Kensington Garden studies of the previous year, the composition of Greenwich Park owes much to contemporary collodion photography, and particularly to stereoscopic views in which intermediate objects, such as the two tree trunks, were used as planes to establish an illusion of depth.

History

Purchased online from The Old Print Shop, Inc. 150 Lexington Avenue, New York on 11 May 2025