Title
The music room
1858
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1858
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching and drypoint in brown ink
- Edition
- ii of 2 states
- Dimensions
- 14.5 x 21.6 cm platemark; 18.5 x 30.9 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1975
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 17.1975
- Copyright
- Artist information
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Works in the collection
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About
In 1858 in Paris Whistler fell ill and went to stay with the family of his half-sister Deborah. She was married to the surgeon, Francis Seymour Haden, who owned a considerable collection of prints, especially those of Rembrandt, and was on the path of becoming a highly accomplished etcher in his own right. Haden encouraged his brother-in-law to start etching during his convalescence, and Whistler found convenient subjects in the Haden household at 62 Sloane Street, London. The man reading the newspaper is Haden; the woman is Deborah Haden, and the other figure is James Reeves Traer, Haden’s medical partner.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
The Bitten Image: European etchings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Jul 1980–14 Sep 1980
Whistler to Freud: etching in Great Britain, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 Aug 2001–11 Nov 2001
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Nicholas Draffin (Curator), The bitten image: European etchings from the collection, Sydney, 1980, 13. no catalogue numbers
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Peter Raissis, Whistler to Freud: etchings in Great Britain, Sydney, 2001, (illus.). cat.no. 93
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