Annie Haden

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Etching, full-length portrait of the artist's niece, Annie Haden, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Signed and dated 1860. In this large, bold image, the girl is shown standing, turned slightly to the right, wearing a cloak, hat and full three-quarter-length skirt, standing on a rug and posed against a curtain backdrop.

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Category	Prints
Object type	Print
Title	Annie Haden (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Etching on paper Paper Printing Ink Etching (Printing Process)
Brief description	Etching, full-length portrait of Annie Haden by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Signed and dated 1860.
Physical description	Etching, full-length portrait of the artist's niece, Annie Haden, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Signed and dated 1860. In this large, bold image, the girl is shown standing, turned slightly to the right, wearing a cloak, hat and full three-quarter-length skirt, standing on a rug and posed against a curtain backdrop.
Dimensions	Plate height: 35.1cm Plate width: 21.1cm Paper height: 38.5cm Paper width: 26.1cm
Style	Realism
Marks and inscriptions	'Whistler, 1860.' (Signed and dated by the artist in plate bottom left.)
Object history	W.57; K.62, 3rd state.
Subjects depicted	Portraits Girls
Bibliographic references	Wedmore, Frederick. Whistler's Etchings, A Study and a Catalogue. London: Colnaghi & Co, 1899. No.57. Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978. No.62, 3rd state. Annie Haden was the subject of Whistler's first major painting which he began in 1858 entitled 'At the Piano', alongside her mother, Mrs Seymour Haden, the artist's half sister.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	19796

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O653872/annie-haden-print-whistler/

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