Annie, Seated | ||
Number: | 32 | |
Date: | 1858/1859 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 130 x 97 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler.-' at lower left | |
Inscribed: | ' "Annie-" ' at lower centre (2-final) | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 3 | |
Known impressions: | 58 | |
Catalogues: | K.30; M.29; T.50; W.24 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (58) |
KEYWORD
girl seated, portrait.
TITLE
There are small variations in the titles for this etching by Whistler and later cataloguers, as follows:
'Annie' (1859, Whistler). 4
'Annie, seated' (1872, British Museum). 5
'Annie Seated' (1874, Ralph Thomas, Jr (1840-1876)). 6
' “Annie” ' (1881, Union League Club). 7
'Annie, Seated' (1886, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 8
Although the name 'Annie' was inscribed by Whistler on the plate, this title cannot be used, because another etching, Annie [7], was published with this title by Whistler in the 'French Set' in 1858. To distinguish it from the published plate, most later cataloguers called the etching 'Annie Seated' or, adding a comma, 'Annie, Seated', which is the preferred version.
'Annie' (1859, Whistler). 4
'Annie, seated' (1872, British Museum). 5
'Annie Seated' (1874, Ralph Thomas, Jr (1840-1876)). 6
' “Annie” ' (1881, Union League Club). 7
'Annie, Seated' (1886, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 8
Although the name 'Annie' was inscribed by Whistler on the plate, this title cannot be used, because another etching, Annie [7], was published with this title by Whistler in the 'French Set' in 1858. To distinguish it from the published plate, most later cataloguers called the etching 'Annie Seated' or, adding a comma, 'Annie, Seated', which is the preferred version.
4: Inscribed on the plate.
5: B.M. Print room Register of Purchases ..., 1872.
6: Thomas 1874 (cat. no. 50).
7: New York 1881 (cat. nos. 35-6).
8: Wedmore 1886 A (cat. no. 24)
DESCRIPTION
Annie is sitting on a round backed wooden chair, facing the viewer, with her elbow leaning on the central cross-bar of the chair at left. Her head is slightly bowed, with shoulder-length hair falling in waves from a central parting. She is wearing a knee-length dress with a full skirt, and loose sleeves gathered at the wrist. Her legs are barely indicated. She is lit from the front, with shadows falling behind and to the left.
SITTER
![Impression: K0100403 Impression: K0100403](../../images/etch_t/K0100403_001.jpg)
The sitter is Annie Harriet Haden (1848-1937). She was nine or ten years old. Other etched portraits of her are Annie Haden with Books [6],
Annie [7] (seen above) and Annie Haden [67]. She appears in a similar pose and dress in a group portrait with her mother, Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908), and a friend, in the oil painting Harmony in Green and Rose: The Music Room [y034], reproduced below.