Children's Fruit Barrow |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.170) | |
| Number: | 347 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 67 x 100 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.365; M.362 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
KEYWORD
barrow, children, fruit, people, streetscape.
TITLE
Variations on the title are as follows:
'Children Fruit Barrow' (1887/1888, Whistler). 1
'Childrens Fruit Barrow' (1889, Whistler). 2
'Children (Fruit Barrow) ' (1890/1892, Beatrice Whistler (1857-1896)). 3
'Brussels Children' (1902, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 4
The second of Whistler's titles, with added punctuation, becoming 'Children's Fruit Barrow', is preferred.
'Children Fruit Barrow' (1887/1888, Whistler). 1
'Childrens Fruit Barrow' (1889, Whistler). 2
'Children (Fruit Barrow) ' (1890/1892, Beatrice Whistler (1857-1896)). 3
'Brussels Children' (1902, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 4
The second of Whistler's titles, with added punctuation, becoming 'Children's Fruit Barrow', is preferred.
1: List, [1887/1888], GUW #13233.
2: List, 18 July 1889, GUW #13235.
3: List, [1890/1892], GUW #12715.
4: Kennedy 1902 (cat. no. 352).
DESCRIPTION
A hand barrow with boxes of fruit is in the left foreground. Behind it is girl, sitting in front of a dark window or low doorway, and a small child, standing on the barrow or on a chair behind the barrow. To right, between the handles of the barrow, is a girl sitting on a wooden chair, and to right of her, a seated girl with a child on her lap. At far right is a street corner, and a standing figure.
SITE
Probably in the city of Brussels, capital of Belgium. The subject is very similar to that of another Brussels etching,
The Barrow - Quartier des Marolles, Brussels [346].