Lady Colin Campbell |  () | |
| Number: | 369 | |
| Date: | 1887/1889 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | unknown 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) | ||
KEYWORD
portrait, woman.
TITLE
An unidentified drypoint is recorded twice in inventories of Whistler's studio:
'Lady C. C' (1890/1891, Whistler). 2
'Colin Campbell Lady Dry Point Indication' (1890/1892, Beatrice Whistler (1857-1896)). 3
The title, Lady Colin Campbell has been chosen, as agreeing with the records of both Whistler and his wife.
'Lady C. C' (1890/1891, Whistler). 2
'Colin Campbell Lady Dry Point Indication' (1890/1892, Beatrice Whistler (1857-1896)). 3
The title, Lady Colin Campbell has been chosen, as agreeing with the records of both Whistler and his wife.
2: List, [1890/1891], GUW #13236.
3: List, 1890/1892; GUW #12715.
DESCRIPTION
A portrait of Lady Colin Campbell.
SITTER
Harmony in White and Ivory: Portrait of Lady Colin Campbell y354, 1886, after Whistler's oil,
Whistler Collection, Glasgow University Library,
Pickford R. Waller press-cutting album, PC 22/51.
Gertrude Elizabeth Campbell (Lady Colin Campbell) (1857-1911). Whistler painted Harmony in White and Ivory: Portrait of Lady Colin Campbell y354 in 1886, and both he and his wife were friendly with Lady Colin Campbell in the late 1880s and early 1890s.
DISCUSSION
There are very few extant portraits that could possibly be identified with this. One possibility is Young Woman Standing 333, reproduced above, which shows a fashionably dressed woman, but unfortunately the features are too faint to identify the sitter with certainty.
If the word 'Indication' meant that it was a slight sketch or sketches on a plate, then other possibilities are Three studies of women's heads 400 and a portrait known only from the copper plate, A young woman with a fan 376, and finally The Busby 368, which is tentatively identified as a portrait of Lilian Pettigrew (b. 1870).