The Major's Daughter (from "Once a Week," June 21, 1862)

After James McNeill Whistler American
 Possibly engraved by Joseph Swain British

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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 a young Engliswoman, Clara Vinrace, who joins her parents in India and falls in love with an older man. Here she sits wistfully on the deck of a steamship as it departs for England.

The Major's Daughter (from "Once a Week," June 21, 1862), After James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), Wood engraving

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