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Date 1860
Materials Etching and drypoint - black ink on
wove oriental paper
Dimensions 35.5 cm x 21.4 cm
Marks Signed on the plate at the lower right:
"Whistler 1860" (with 6 reversed)
Further information GLAHA 46749.
Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, The
Grolier Club, 1910 (62, 3rd of 3 states).
Note Whistler made this portrait of his 12 year old niece Annie Haden in early 1860, while he was staying at the home of his half-sister Deborah in Sloane Street, London. Annie’s face is sensitively drawn and suggests Whistler’s affection for her. Whistler also shows his concern to describe the texture of her hair, hat and dress, and of the curtain and oriental rug, using different kinds of line. He was also interested in capturing shadow. This etching can be related to Whistler’s painting Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, in which the artist radically turned his back on Victorian ideas about subject matter and narrative, painting a woman dressed in white and simply standing in front of a white curtain.
Related works GLAHA 50260.
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