The Reprimand
Date1884
Printer/Printmaker
Walter Shirlaw
American painter, illustrator, 1838–1909
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 11 3/16 × 14 1/2 in. (28.4 × 36.8 cm)
sheet: 12 1/2 × 15 9/16 in. (31.8 × 39.5 cm)
sheet: 12 1/2 × 15 9/16 in. (31.8 × 39.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-57
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis popular print is based on an 1880 painting by Eastman Johnson that shows an older man scolding a young woman. She turns away, unimpressed by his rebuke, with a defiant expression on her face. The print was made by Johnson's colleague Walter Shirlaw as the "etching of the year," given to members of the American Art Union upon payment of their dues in 1884.
