UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Speke Hall

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1898.403)
Number: 140
Date: 1875
Medium: drypoint
Size: 178 x 302 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.143; M.141
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)
Speke Hall dates from 1875. An impression was inscribed '1st proof' and dated '1875' (Graphic with a link to impression #K1430104).
Whistler stayed at Speke Hall near Liverpool several times including January to March 1875. On 1 February 1875 he wrote from Speke:
'The etchings and drypoints are getting on famously - I have quite got back into my old delight in the work and think I shall have some pretty things to show you soon - ' 1

1: GUW #07565.

He was working on five etchings of Speke Hall and the vicinity, including Shipbuilder's Yard (K.146), The Little Forge (K.147), Speke Shore (K.144), and The Dam Wood (K. 145).