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Emanuel Hospital | ||
Number: | 469 | |
Date: | 1892 | |
Medium: | etching (?) | |
Size: | 140 x 220 mm | |
Signed: | unknown | |
Inscribed: | unknown | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 0 | |
Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
Impressions taken from this plate (0) |
Nathaniel Sparks after Whistler, pencil, 1931, whereabouts unknown. 2
In 1892 Emanuel Hospital in Tuthill Street, London, was sold by the trustees and demolished (a Scheme to use the proceeds was approved in 1894). 3 Rose Barton lamented the loss of the building:
1: 28 September 1892.
2: M. Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340-9.
3: 'Social history: Charities for the poor', A History of the County of Middlesex: Vol. 12: Chelsea, 2004, pp. 195-201, at http://www.british-history.ac.uk (accessed 2010)
4: Rose Barton (1865-1929), Familiar London, 1904, pp. 117-118; see Christie's, London, Victorian Pictures, 11 June 1993, lot 33.
5: 28 September 1892.
6: Whistler to W. Heinemann, [October 1892], GUW #10789.