34. Stanley Anderson
(1884-1966)

An Old Market Passage, Eastcheap

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Anderson, Market Passage

An Old Market Passage, Eastcheap

Etching, 1909, 157 x 152 mm., Hardie (PCQ XX) 3, edition of only 18. Very fine impression in brown-black ink on imperial japan paper with good margins, signed in pencil and numbered 8. Anderson, whose best-known prints were done in engraving, is never listed among the Whistler followers. Yet, this early etching exemplifies both Whistler's framing within the scene and his technique of establishing depth by alternating light and dark passages. Could Anderson have felt the direct effects of such etchings as The Kitchen, Rotherhithe and the Venetian Beggars? Or is it simply that by the time of Whistler's death, so much of what he had pioneered had become common parlance?