Sketch of Houses |  Freer Gallery of Art (1902.279) | |
| Number: | 15 | |
| Date: | 1858 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 158 x 225 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.161; M.158 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
KEYWORD
building, house, roof, town.
TITLE
Whistler's original title is not known. Only one title is recorded, as follows:
'Sketch of Houses' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 2
'Sketch of Houses' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
'Sketch of Houses' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 2
'Sketch of Houses' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 3
2: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 158).
3: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 161).
DESCRIPTION
On the left is the outline of the top of a building with a sloping roof. On the right is a row of steep-roofed three- and four-storey houses, receding into the distance towards the left, some with upper floors projecting over the street. The building at extreme right has a row of low arched windows in a balcony along the top floor. Three buildings to its left is a house with two rows of dormer windows in the roof. Immediately to left of that, a house has bay windows projecting further out on each storey.
SITE
Possibly a street in Alsace, which is in eastern France, on the west bank of the Upper Rhine, adjoining Germany and Switzerland.