Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
James McNeill Whistler, ‘The Little Pool’ James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)The Little PoolEtched 1861, printed and published 1871Etching (Kennedy 74, State VIII, as published in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames, 1871)Museum no. CAI 148Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides In this daring composition, the two figures to the left are Whistler himself, drawing on a copperplate, and his friend and patron Sergeant Thomas, a rich lawyer who was involved in early plans for the publication of the ‘Thames Set’ etchings. The image was conceived as an announcement for the series, but the printers mistakenly erased Whistler’s original etched lettering. http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/3728

James McNeill Whistler, ‘The Little Pool’

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
The Little Pool
Etched 1861, printed and published 1871
Etching (Kennedy 74, State VIII, as published in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames, 1871)
Museum no. CAI 148
Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides

In this daring composition, the two figures to the left are Whistler himself, drawing on a copperplate, and his friend and patron Sergeant Thomas, a rich lawyer who was involved in early plans for the publication of the ‘Thames Set’ etchings. The image was conceived as an announcement for the series, but the printers mistakenly erased Whistler’s original etched lettering.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/3728



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