Etching by James McNeil Whistler "Old Hungerford Bridge," 1894

Item Details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834 – 1903)
Old Hungerford Bridge, 1894
Etching and drypoint on paper
Signed in plate to lower right
Fourth state
Printed by Frederick Goulding (1842-1909)
Inscribed to the lower left under plate in graphite: “From copper surface. May 1894. F. Goulding imp.”

Frederick Goulding (1842-1909) was an English printer and printmaker. He first met James McNeill Whistler in 1859 and by 1861 was printing the artist’s plates. Goulding made several late-stage impressions of Whistler’s etchings, often completing editions Whistler started but never finished. Goulding was selected by Whistler’s executrix to print posthumous editions of the artist’s plates.

Whistler etched ‘Old Hungerford Bridge’ in 1861. For more information about the etching, see Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 76, on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. The etching plate for ‘Old Hungerford Bridge’ was in the possession of Whistler’s art dealers, Frederick Keppel and Co., London, until 1896 when it was purchased by Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) in its cancelled state. Freer later gifted the plate to the Freer Gallery of Art (now part of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution).

Condition

- some undulations; toning; scattered foxing; misaligned in mat; minor wear to the frame.

Dimensions

- measures the frame; plate measures 8.25" W x 5.5" H.

• Item not examined outside of mounting.

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Item #

ITMGQ41382