The Major's Daughter (for "Once a Week," June 21, 1862)
After James McNeill Whistler American
Possibly engraved by Joseph Swain British
Printer Chiswick Press British
Not on view
In 1862 Whistler designed four wood engravings for the London periodical "Once a Week." Many of his Pre-Raphaelite friends were illustrating poems and short stories at this moment and the decade proved to be the start of a new flowering of British illustration. Founded in 1859, "Once a Week" supported the movement and was known as a "journal of the younger men." Whister's image responds to a story centered on Clara Vinrace, a young English woman who joins her parents in India and there falls in love with an older man. Here she sits wistfully on the deck of a steamship that will take her back to England. This is a proof for a wood engraving published June 21, 1862.
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