The Silk Dress |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1949.5.539) | |
| Number: | 151 | |
| Date: | 1875 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 209 x 134 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.107; M.115 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
KEYWORD
cancelled plate, clothing, dress, fashion, full-length, portrait, woman standing.
TITLE
Whistler's original title is not known. Only one title is known, as follows:
'The Silk Dress' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 2
'The Silk Dress' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
'The Silk Dress' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 2
'The Silk Dress' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
2: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 115).
3: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 107).
DESCRIPTION
A full-length portrait of a young woman standing facing left, her head turned to look at the viewer, and her left arm hanging at her side. She wears a small hat with very narrow brim, a dress with close-fitting bodice, slightly puffed sleeves, and a skirt with a broad pleated hem, and an overskirt gathered behind the waist and falling in folds into a train to right.
SITTER
Possibly Elizabeth Dawson (b. 1840).
DISCUSSION