Speke Hall: The Avenue / James McNeill Whistler
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.354
- Title
- Speke Hall: The Avenue
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on old laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1870
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- Signed and dated on the plate, l.r.: Whistler. 1870. / Speke Hall. Signed, in pencil, l.l.: butterfly and imp. Watermark: (elaborate) Notation on verso, in brown ink: Latin inscription
- Dimensions
- 33 cm x 21.6 cm (13 in. x 8 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- A woman in a long dress and hat stands in the foreground of a wintery landscape. She stands in the tree-lined approach to a grand house with numerous gabes and elaborate geometric half-timbered designs on the facade. The scene is viewed from an elevated vantagepoint, thus looking down on the woman, who is seen in profile facing to the left and looking down.
- Subject Matter
- Frederick Leyland was one of Whistler most important patrons in the early years of his career; it is for Leyland's London house that Whistler created the elaborate Peacock Room, owned by Freer and now in the Freer Gallery in Washington. Speke Hall was Leyland's Elizabethan period residence near Liverpool and Whistler was invited by the Leylands to spend time at Speke Hall.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 861 x 1349
- File Size
- 84 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.354
- Link to this Item
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