Little Dordrecht | ||
Number: | 260 | |
Date: | 1886 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 95 x 132 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 12 | |
Catalogues: | K.243; M.240 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (12) |
KEYWORD
barge, bridge, cart, horse, people, port, river, sailing boat, ship, wharf.
TITLE
Only one title is known, as in the following examples:
'Little Dordrecht' (1886, Whistler). 2
'Little Dordrecht' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 3
'Little Dordrecht' (1886, Whistler). 2
'Little Dordrecht' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 3
2: Whistler to T. McLean, [1 November 1886], GUW #13010.
3: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 240).
DESCRIPTION
In the foreground three men are crossing a bridge, or a ramp, leading to a wharf. On the wharf are several figures, a horse and a cart. A group of small sailing boats or barges, some with sails partly raised, is moored in mid-stream. There are trees on the far bank.
SITE
A view of the quayside along the Merwekade from near the Bellevue Hotel in the town of Dordrecht, in the Netherlands. 4 A busy port and ferry terminal on the Dutch coast, it was frequently visited by Whistler, who made a number of watercolours there between about 1882 and 1902, including Dordrecht [m0876],
r.: Gold and Brown: Dordrecht; v.: Dordrecht [m0968],
A Little Red Note: Dordrecht [m0969],
Note in Rose and Silver - Dordrecht [m0970],
Silver and Red: Dordrecht [m0971],
A silver note: Dordrecht [m0972],
Gold and grey - The Sunny Shower, Dordrecht [m0973],
Note en gris: Dordrecht [m0974],
Grey and Green - Dordrecht [m0976] and
Dordrecht [m1709], and two oil paintings,
Note en gris: Dordrecht [y293],
Bleu et argent: Dordrecht [y294]. Etchings of Dordrecht include Dordrecht [259] and Barges, Dordrecht [262].
4: Heijbroek 1997, pp. 55, 61.