The Major's Daughter (from "Once a Week," June 21, 1862)
Joseph Swain|James McNeill Whistler
June 21, 1862 · Wood engraving · Drawings and Prints
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.
- Artist
- Joseph Swain|James McNeill Whistler
- Date
- June 21, 1862
- Medium
- Wood engraving
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Anonymous Gift, 1925
