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Sketching |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.316) | |
| Number: | 83 | |
| Date: | 1861 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 120 x 166 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler - ' at lower right (1-3); partly removed (4-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | Junior Etching Club, 1862 | |
| No. of States: | 6 | |
| Known impressions: | 35 | |
| Catalogues: | K.86; M.87; T.86; W.69 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (35) | ||
Whistler was elected to the Junior Etching Club in 1859, and attended a meeting on 2 January 1861, when he agreed to contribute two plates 'to replace those promised by the late Mr Luard in the Collection of Miscellaneous Etchings to be published by Day and Son.' 1
Whistler was seriously ill in the summer of 1861, but had recovered by August, when he went to join Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), at Sunbury, the house of Edwin Edwards (1823-1879) on the upper reaches of the river Thames.
Whistler was seriously ill in the summer of 1861, but had recovered by August, when he went to join Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), at Sunbury, the house of Edwin Edwards (1823-1879) on the upper reaches of the river Thames.
1: 'Minutes of the Junior Etching Club,' Victoria and Albert Museum; Lochnan 1984 , p. 134.
Sketching was probably etched in the late summer of 1861, when grasses were seeding on the river banks, and the trees still in full leaf.
Other etchings that may date from this time are The Punt
[82] and Landscape with Fisherman
[85]. 2
The Punt [82] and Sketching [83] were both printed on 1 December 1861, and published in Passages from Modern English Poets, London, 1862 (Plates 7 and 45).
The Punt [82] and Sketching [83] were both printed on 1 December 1861, and published in Passages from Modern English Poets, London, 1862 (Plates 7 and 45).
2: Lochnan 1984 , p. 134.