The Dam Wood |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.106) | |
| Number: | 133 | |
| Date: | 1874/1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 177 x 113 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.145; M.143; W.120 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
KEYWORD
landscape, tree, wood.
TITLE
Variations on the title are as follows:
'The Dam Wood' (1877, Whistler). 2
'Trees (near Speke)' (1881, Union League Club). 3
'The Dam Wood' (1886, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 4
' "Dam" Wood' (1887/1888, Whistler). 5
'Dam Wood' (1889, Whistler). 6
'The Dam Wood / Near Speke Hall' (1903/1935, possibly Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958)). 7
'The Dam Wood' is the original and generally accepted title. It refers to a wood near Speke Hall, Liverpool.
'The Dam Wood' (1877, Whistler). 2
'Trees (near Speke)' (1881, Union League Club). 3
'The Dam Wood' (1886, Frederick Wedmore (1844-1921)). 4
' "Dam" Wood' (1887/1888, Whistler). 5
'Dam Wood' (1889, Whistler). 6
'The Dam Wood / Near Speke Hall' (1903/1935, possibly Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958)). 7
'The Dam Wood' is the original and generally accepted title. It refers to a wood near Speke Hall, Liverpool.
2: Whistler to C. A. Howell, 12 October-5 November [1877], GUW #12735.
3: New York 1881 (cat. no. 139).
4: Wedmore 1886 A[more] (cat. no. 120).
5: List, [1887/1888], GUW #13233.
6: List, 18 July 1889, GUW #13235.
7: Envelope containing copper plate, Hunterian Art Gallery.
DESCRIPTION
In the foreground is a group of young slender trees, with a meadow beyond and a wood in the distance, under a cloudy sky.
SITE
Whistler wrote 'near Speke -' on one impression of the etching (). There is a Dam Wood Road at Speke, near Speke Hall, near Liverpool, in north-west England.