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Exeter Street |  Hunterian Art Gallery (54892) | |
| Number: | 274 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 128 x 177 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.280; M.275 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
KEYWORD
awning, children, fish shop, greengrocer, people, shop, street.
TITLE
It has always been known by the same title, as in the following examples:
'Exeter Street' (1888, Whistler). 2
'Exeter Street' (1902, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
'Exeter Street' (1888, Whistler). 2
'Exeter Street' (1902, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
2: Whistler to Wunderlich's, 29 June 1888, GUW #13052.
3: Kennedy 1902 (cat. no. 287).
DESCRIPTION
A view of the ground and lower part of the first-storey of a row of shops. At left is a shop with a bow window and an open door; then, to right, a closed wood-panelled door; and then an awning shading a large greengrocer's shop that has a wide open entrance into a dark interior. There are rectangular boxes and circular baskets of fruit and vegetables arranged on tables in front, on either side of the entrance. On the pavement in front is a little girl at left, then two older girls wearing bonnets and short skirts, and at far right, another toddler.
SITE
There are two Exeter Streets in London, one between the Strand and Covent Garden, and the other, a fairly new development in the mid-1880s, in Chelsea. In 1888, James Herbert Wilson, greengrocer, was at 33 Exeter Street, Chelsea, and Richard Gold, dairyman, at No. 35. This is almost certainly what appears in Whistler's etching.