Wimpole Street |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46895) | |
| Number: | 279 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 100 x 67 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.286; M.278 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
KEYWORD
building, cab, horse, street.
TITLE
The site is Wimpole Street and the title used by Whistler and others always included the street name. Examples of titles are as follows:
'Wimpole Street' (1887, Whistler). 3
'The Hansom Cab, or Wimpole Street' (1904, Grolier Club). 4
'Wimpole Street' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 5
'Hansom Cab (Wimpole Street)' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 6
The Grolier Club introduced the detail of 'Hansom Cab' because there is a cab in the foreground, but Whistler and most other cataloguers called it 'Wimpole Street'.
'Wimpole Street' (1887, Whistler). 3
'The Hansom Cab, or Wimpole Street' (1904, Grolier Club). 4
'Wimpole Street' (1909, Howard Mansfield (1849-1938)). 5
'Hansom Cab (Wimpole Street)' (1910, Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932)). 6
The Grolier Club introduced the detail of 'Hansom Cab' because there is a cab in the foreground, but Whistler and most other cataloguers called it 'Wimpole Street'.
3: [August 1887/1888], GUW #13233.
4: New York 1904a (cat. no. 324).
5: Mansfield 1909 (cat. no. 278).
6: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 286).
DESCRIPTION
The view across a street, showing part of the ground floor and two upper floors of a row of buildings. The houses have pillars on the ground floor, and railings in front. In the foreground at left is a passer-by, and to right stands a horse-drawn cab; another cab is on the other side of the street at left.
SITE
Wimpole Street, 2010.
Photograph©M.F.MacDonald, Whistler Etchings Project.
Wimpole Street, London UK. It was famous as the address of many distinguished doctors including Whistler's brother William McNeill Whistler (1836-1900), who lived at 28 Wimpole Street, near Cavendish Square. This could be the view from Dr Whistler's house but the buildings have been substantially altered.