DOI Heft:
No.127 (October, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Way, T. R.: Mr. Whistler as a lithographer
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0036
James McNeill Whistler
developments on lines distinctly different from their eight prints which he then made. Another, the
forerunners. There are quite a number of portraits, last litho-tint which he ever did, has been already
both of men and women, including several of Mr. referred to. It is entitled The Thames, and is the
Joseph Pennell, a sketch of W. E. Henley, one of fullest and richest in subject of the wash-drawings,
Mrs. Pennell lit by the light of the fire, very and for it he was awarded the gold medal in the
suggestive of its flickering lights and shades, a International Exhibition in Paris, where it was
charming study of a child, Little Evelyn, and exhibited. Drawn from a window high up in the
another of a lady at needlework ; but, delightful as hotel, it shows the whole width of the river sweep-
they all are, they fade into insignificance beside ing past full of barges, with the shot-tower and
the splendid perfection of The Siesta. Few people smoking chimneys of the Surrey side. Below,
have been privileged to see this exquisite work, a in the foreground, is the Embankment with passing
study of the artist's wife resting upon a couch cabs and figures seen through the screen of
covered with white drapery. The pathos of the branches of the trees in the gardens; in all, a
subject and the perfection of its rendering make it wonderfully interesting and beautiful picture,
safe to prophesy that, come who may in the future, This was not obtained, however, in its first state,
he will never write upon stone a more exquisite but the artist wrought at it until he had brought
song. It was drawn at the Savoy Hotel whilst about its final perfection. Another very charming
Whistler was staying there, and was one of the print, and quite different in treatment from any
other he had done, is
the Charing-Cross Railway
Bridge, almost entirely
in stump, with the dark
bridge seen against the
broad light river and after-
noon sky ; and yet another
is the Little London, a
miniature indeed in scale>
but suggesting in its tiny
surface the vastness of the
city, with its crown of St.
Paul's Cathedral.
After the Savoy drawings
the artist commenced a
series of London churches,
and drew two of them,
St. Anne's, Soho, and St.
Giles - in - the - Fields ; alas,
that no more were done !
Many times have our
churches been drawn, and
by many hands, but his
drawings give such a fresh
vision of their beauty that
the loss of those which
would have followed is
greatly to be deplored.
Their wonderful faithful-
ness as portraits of the
buildings themselves, the
suggestion of the colour
and surface of the stone-
work, especially in the St.
FOR THE PORTRAIT OF MISS ALEXANDER BY J. MCNEILL WHISTLER GlleS, give absolute SatisfaC-
(By permission of W. Burrell, Esq.) tion to all who see them.
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developments on lines distinctly different from their eight prints which he then made. Another, the
forerunners. There are quite a number of portraits, last litho-tint which he ever did, has been already
both of men and women, including several of Mr. referred to. It is entitled The Thames, and is the
Joseph Pennell, a sketch of W. E. Henley, one of fullest and richest in subject of the wash-drawings,
Mrs. Pennell lit by the light of the fire, very and for it he was awarded the gold medal in the
suggestive of its flickering lights and shades, a International Exhibition in Paris, where it was
charming study of a child, Little Evelyn, and exhibited. Drawn from a window high up in the
another of a lady at needlework ; but, delightful as hotel, it shows the whole width of the river sweep-
they all are, they fade into insignificance beside ing past full of barges, with the shot-tower and
the splendid perfection of The Siesta. Few people smoking chimneys of the Surrey side. Below,
have been privileged to see this exquisite work, a in the foreground, is the Embankment with passing
study of the artist's wife resting upon a couch cabs and figures seen through the screen of
covered with white drapery. The pathos of the branches of the trees in the gardens; in all, a
subject and the perfection of its rendering make it wonderfully interesting and beautiful picture,
safe to prophesy that, come who may in the future, This was not obtained, however, in its first state,
he will never write upon stone a more exquisite but the artist wrought at it until he had brought
song. It was drawn at the Savoy Hotel whilst about its final perfection. Another very charming
Whistler was staying there, and was one of the print, and quite different in treatment from any
other he had done, is
the Charing-Cross Railway
Bridge, almost entirely
in stump, with the dark
bridge seen against the
broad light river and after-
noon sky ; and yet another
is the Little London, a
miniature indeed in scale>
but suggesting in its tiny
surface the vastness of the
city, with its crown of St.
Paul's Cathedral.
After the Savoy drawings
the artist commenced a
series of London churches,
and drew two of them,
St. Anne's, Soho, and St.
Giles - in - the - Fields ; alas,
that no more were done !
Many times have our
churches been drawn, and
by many hands, but his
drawings give such a fresh
vision of their beauty that
the loss of those which
would have followed is
greatly to be deplored.
Their wonderful faithful-
ness as portraits of the
buildings themselves, the
suggestion of the colour
and surface of the stone-
work, especially in the St.
FOR THE PORTRAIT OF MISS ALEXANDER BY J. MCNEILL WHISTLER GlleS, give absolute SatisfaC-
(By permission of W. Burrell, Esq.) tion to all who see them.
19