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Creator: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
VITRE - THE CANAL, BRITTANY
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M.
VITRE: THE CANAL, BRITTANY. Levy 65, Spink 63. Lithograph, 1893.
One of 32 lifetime impressions, printed by Way, with Whistler's butterfly signature in pencil...
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1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Lithograph
“Valparaiso”, Approach of evening."
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
After
WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeil. Photogravure
10x12 2/4" paper size, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" image size
Signed in pencil with artist’s butterfly monogram.
This photogravure is from the...
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1890s Photorealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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ABS, Photogravure
Barges, Dordrecht
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Barges, Dordrecht
Etching, c. 1886
Signed in the plate with the butterfly
Edition: One of 10 known impressions of this image. VERY RARE
Provenance:
Frederick Keppel & Co. with their ...
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19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
'En Plein Soleil' from the French Set, 'Douze eau-fortes d'apres Nature'
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 'En Plein Soleil' from the French Set (Douze eau-fortes d'apres Nature), etching, 1858, edition 61, 4th state of 4, Kenn...
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1850s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Etching
Bibi Valentin
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Bibi Valentin. 1859. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy catalog 50 state ii; Glasgow catalog 34 state ii. 6 x 8 7/8 (sheet 8 11/16 x 10 11/16). Glasgow records 44 known impressions. A rich impression with burr, printed on watermarked laid paper with full margins. Signed and dated in the plate. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat
A young girl, sits facing the viewer, leaning on her left elbow, legs extended to left. She wears a high-necked smock and buttoned boots...
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19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Rue Furstenberg
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Rue Furstenberg. 1894. Lithograph. Way 59; Levy 90; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink catalog 97. Only state. 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 (sheet 14 1/4 x 8 7/8). A fine ...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
The Fair
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Fair. 1895-96. Lithograph. Way 92, Levy 144, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 135 state ii. Image 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 (sheet 13 x 9 5/8). A fine impression printed on antique cream-laid paper. Way lists 15-lifetime impressions (Goulding printed...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Whitesmiths, Impresse des Carmelites
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903)
THE WHITESMITHS, IMPRESSE DES CARMELITES 1894 (03) Way 53, LEVY 84
Transfer lithograph signed with butterfly in stone 8 ½ x 6 1//8". ...
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1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Lithograph
Rotherhithe
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Rotherhithe (Originally published as Wapping). 1860. Etching. Kennedy catalog 66 state iii; Glasgow catalog 70. state vi. 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 (sheet 12 7/8 x 9 1/2). Series: "Sixteen Etc...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Venus
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Venus. 1859. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy catalog 59 state ii; Glasgow catalog 60 state ii. 6 x 9 (sheet 8 x 11 3/16). Glasgow records 27 known impressions. A very rich impression p...
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Mid-19th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
AFTERNOON TEA
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. AFTERNOON TEA. Way 147, Levy 114, TS&S 173. Lithograph, 1897. The only State, printed by Clot in an edition of 100, and published b...
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1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
The Little Wheelwright's
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Little Wheelwright's. 1886. Etching. Kennedy 245; Glasgow 242. 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 (sheet 5 1/8 x 6 1/8). There was no lifetime edition. Glasgow lists only 13 other known impressions. A fine impression printed in black ink on white laid paper. Monogrammed with the butterfly in the plate. Housed in a 10 X 11 1/2 X 1-inch gold leaf period carved Celtic...
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Mid-19th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
J.H. Woods’ Fruit Shop, Chelsea
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), J.H. Woods’ Fruit Shop, Chelsea, etching and drypoint, 1887-88. Signed with the butterfly on the tab and annotated “imp,” also signed with the butterfly in pencil verso and numbered “1”. References: Kennedy 265 second state (of 2), Glasgow 327 second state (of 4). Trimmed by the artist around the plate mark except for the tab, in excellent condition. Printed in black ink on ivory laid paper, 3 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches.
A fine impression of this great rarity; the print was never published. Glasgow accounts for four impressions.
watermark: partial arms of Amsterdam(cf. Spink/Stratis/Tedeschi, watermark nos. 12ff.)
This is before the third state in which heavy shading was added around the woman at the center, and the heads of figures at right and left of the figure are defined. In Glasgow’s fourth state the shading and the figure were removed; no impression is known of this state, but the state is inferred from the cancelled plate.
According to Glasgow “Joseph Henry Wood had a greengrocer’s shop at 1 Park Walk...
Category
1880s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Drury Lane
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), DRURY LANE, etching, 1880-81, signed with the butterfly and inscribed imp in pencil [also with the butterfly upper right in the plate], on...
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Late 19th Century Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Lindsey Row, Chelsea
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Lindsey Row, Chelsea. 1888. Lithograph. Way 20; Levy 33; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 23. 5 x 8. Edition of 56 posthumous impressions printed by Goulding, in addition to the 14 lifet...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Tête-à-Tête in the Garden
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Tête-à-Tête in the Garden. 1894. Lithograph. Way 54, Levy 85, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 90. 8 x 6 1/2(sheet 10 7/8 x 8 1/2). Edition of 25-lifetime impressions plus a few proofs re...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Victoria Club
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Victoria Club. 1879 and 1887. Lithograph. Way catalog 11 state ii; Levy catalog 22; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink catalog number 15 state ii. 8 x 5 3/8 (sheet 16 5/8 x 12 1/16). A ri...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Chelsea Rags
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Chelsea Rags.
Chelsea Rags. 1888. Lithograph. Way 22, Levy 35, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 26. 7 1/8 x 6 5/16 (sheet 12 3/4 x 8). Printed on cream laid paper. Provenance: Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip, Whistler's sister-in-law, her seal verso: (Lugt 405). Michael Parkin Fine Art, Ltd. from whom purchased in 1972. Christie's, King Street.Signed with the butterfly in the image. One of 13 impressions listed by Way, before the image was transferred to supplementary stones for the edition of 500-1,000 printed by Way and issued in the Albemarle, January, 1892. Signed with the butterfly in the stone and in pencil. Housed in an elegant silk mat with a silver liner, and in a 16 3/4 x 14 3/4-inch silver leaf frame decorated with fleur-de-lis decorations.
"And his interest in London has not been restricted to the Thames. Seeing the beautiful, where other men might be discouraged by dullness, he has taken his subject, now in the little cheap shop opening a low window upon the street, now in the forgotten church hidden away in a lonely square. And Chelsea Rags, the Shops of Chelsea, the Drury Lane, as well as The Butcher's Dog, are impressions of vague Rembrandtesque interiors where figures, grim or graceful, peer from out deep shadows— shops as lovely in his prints as the halls of a Veronese, or the palaces of a Claude." Elizabeth Robins...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
DRURY LANE RAGS
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. DRURY LANE RAGS. Way 21. lithograph, 1888. Edition of only 15. Signed with the butterfly in pencil, and also in the image. Printed on Japan paper. With Rosalind Birnie Philip's square-sha[ed collector's stamp, denoting a lifetime impression, lower left, verso. 6 x 6 1/2 inches (image), sheet: 12 x 8 inches (sheet) Framed to 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches. A brownish spot or stain near the center of the sheet, which may have been on the sheet at the time of printing, given Whistler's inclination to utilize old papers...
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1880s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape with Horses.
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Kennedy catalog 36 state ii; Glasgow 45 state ii. Image: 4 7/8 x 7 3/4 (sheet 6 7/8 x 9 5/8).The Glasgow catalog records 32 known impressions. A scarce early etching -- there was no ...
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Mid-19th Century American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
THE BEGGERS - possibly unique state example
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT McNEILL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903)
THE BEGGARS 1879-80 (Glasgow 190 x/xvii: K.194 ii/ix?: M.191: W.159)
Etching and drypoint, from “Venice, a Series ...
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1880s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Etching
The Mill, Amsterdam, 1889
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Mill, 1889, etching and drypoint, signed in pencil with the butterfly on the tab and inscribed “imp”, and inscribed “first state” (twice) and annotated “Wunderlich” and signed again with the butterfly verso. Reference: Kennedy 413, first state (of 5). Glasgow 457, second state (of 6; see discussion below) (cf. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011)
On laid paper, in very good condition, trimmed just outside of the platemark all around except for the tab by the artist, 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches.
A very fine impression of this great rarity, printed in black/brown ink with a slight veil of plate tone.
provenance:
H. Wunderlich & Co., New York
Louis B. Dailey, New York (Lugt 4500)
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, October 31, 2003, lot 69
literature;
Neue Lagerliste 122: James McNeill Whistler – Etchings...
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1880s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
THE MEDICI COLLAR
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Portland, ME
Whistler, James A. M. THE MEDICI COLLAR. Spink 170, Way 153, Levy 186.
Transfer lithograph, 1897. Number of impressions unknown.
Printed in Paris by Le...
Category
1890s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
The Venetian Mast
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
The Venetian Mast. 1879-80. Etching and drypoint. Kennedy catalog 195 state .vi; Glasgow catalog 219 state x/xii. 13 3/8 x 6 3/8. Glasgow records 53 impressions. A fine, atmospheric...
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1870s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Traghetto
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Traghetto, etching and drypoint, 1879-80, signed with the butterfly on the tab and inscribed “imp”. Reference: Kennedy 19...
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1870s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Bridge, Amsterdam
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Bridge, Amsterdam, etching, 1889, printed in brown ink on thin laid paper, signed with the butterfly on the tab and annotated “imp”, also signed with the butterfly on the verso and numbered 11. References: Kennedy 409, Glasgow 447, fifth state (of 5). In very good condition (slight nicks at edges), trimmed by the artist on the plate mark apart from the tab, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches.
Provenance:
Vivian and Meyer P. Potamkin, Philadelphia;
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, May 11, 1989, lot 302
Samuel Josefowitz, Pully, Switzerland
A very fine, shimmering impression of this great rarity.
This impression is included in the Glasgow inventory, ID number K4090301; only about 11 lifetime impressions in all states are known (three were also printed posthumously by Nathaniel Sparks...
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1880s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Etching
Gabled Roofs
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Gabled Roofs, lithograph, 1893. Reference: Chicago (Spink et al) 64, only state. From the lifetime edition of 12 (there was also a posthumou...
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1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
The Bridge, Santa Maria
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Bridge, Santa Marta, 1879-80, etching with drypoint, printed in sepia on fine laid paper. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed imp on the tab (also with an exceedingly light butterfly lower right in the plate). Kennedy 204, probably eighth (final) state; Glasgow 201, probably state 9 (of 9) (cf. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011), Lochnan 199. Trimmed to the platemark by the artist, h: 11.8 x w: 7.9 in / h: 30 x w: 20.1 cm.
A fine impression, printed with subtle tone.
The bridge theme occurs repeatedly in Whistler’s vistas. It is also the main focus of more than one of the Venetian prints. While some bridges are seen from below, from where one would see it if approaching in a gondola (for example Ponte del Piovan, Kennedy 209), The Bridge depicts the scene from a high perspective, opening up the view into the far distance. The small boat approaching the arch in the foreground is again, as in the earlier Thames prints, a stock motif that is probably ultimately derived from the Japanese woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige. The bridge here is the Ponte de le Terese over the Rio de l’Arzere in the Santa Marta quarter.
The early biography of Whistler by Elizabeth and Joseph Pennell is essential for its “immense quantity of information” but also notorious for “the inherent hyperbole and misinformation” (Eric Denker, Annotated Bibliography, in Fine, p. 184). Still, it is worth quoting from the Pennels’ appraisal of The Bridge: “Simplicity of expression has never been carried further. Probably the finest plate, in its simplicity and directness, is The Bridge. Whistler now obtained the quality of richness by suggesting detail, and also by printing. In The Traghetto...
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1870s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Drypoint, Etching
Limehouse
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Limehouse, etching, 1859. References: Glasgow 48, fifth state (of 6), Kennedy 40, third state (of 3), signed with the butterfly in pencil in the lower margin. [Also signed and dated in the plate.]With margins, 5 x 7 7/8 inches, the sheet 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Published as no. 12 in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects, otherwise known as the Thames Set. In good condition apart from a soft diagonal fold in the sky.
A very fine impression, in black ink on a thin Japan paper.
Provenance: Dr. John W. Randall (cf. Lugt 2130), without his mark, annotated on the mat.
Limehouse, the entrance to the West Indies Docks, lies opposite the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, along the lower Thames.
It’s unusual to find the signed butterfly (or any pencil signature) on the early London etchings, but it is known that Whistler signed...
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1850s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Etching
Venus
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), Venus, 1859. Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on laid paper, an impression in the second (final) state: there was no published edition. 6 x 9 inches (15 x 22.6 cm) sheet 73/8 x 117/8 inches (18.8 x 30.3 cm) Reference: Kennedy 59; Glasgow 60
A very fine impression.
A study of Héloïse, ‘Fumette’, asleep in bed, her head pressed into the pillow and the bedclothes covering her lower legs. This is one of three portraits Whistler made of Fumette in 1859: one of the others shows her standing and in the third only her head and shoulders are depicted. Venus is a work in the Realist tradition, and may be compared with Courbet’s nudes of the same period. The artist may also have had in mind Rembrandt’s study of Antiope in his etching Jupiter and Antiope.
Venus was never published and there is no record of it being shown until 1898 when it was included in an Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints and Lithographs by Whistler at H. Wunderlich & Co., New York. To have been overlooked for exhibition until so late in Whistler’s life might suggest that the subject was considered improper. Frederick Wedmore, whose catalogue of Whistler’s etchings...
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1850s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Drypoint, Etching
The Beggars
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Beggars, etching and drypoint, 1879-80, signed with the butterfly and inscribed “imp”. Reference: Glasgow 190, seventh sta...
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1870s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Drypoint, Etching
The Unsafe Tenement
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), The Unsafe Tenement, etching, 1858. [signed in the plate lower right]. References: Kennedy 17. Glasgow 18, fourth state (of four). In very good condition, printed on a very thin (two ply?) Japan paper, with margins, 6 1/8 x 8 3/4, the sheet 8 1/4 x 11, archival mounting.
A brilliant, black impression printed with astonishing clarity and exquisite detailing, on an ivory Japan paper. Presumably this is a proof impression before the relatively large edition published in this state (the edition was not on this paper).
Provenance: Inscribed “To Otto J. Schneider from his friend Frederick Keppel”. Schneider (1875-1946) was an American artist, noted for his realism, influenced by Whistler. Keppel was of course the well-known American dealer, one of whose specialties was Whistler prints. Keppel had a good relationship with Whistler until, as in most of his relationships, Whistler became inordinately troublesome – at which point Keppel wrote Whistler a longish, mocking poem, with lines such as these: “Like cackling hens or cocks a-crowing Your tireless trumpet keeps a-blowing. ” After this, Keppel wrote “at this point all my intercourse with this extraordinary man came to an end.”
(In the lower right is the ghost of another inscription, now erased, apparently to another friend from Edna (?) Schneider who presumably owned this print after Otto Schneider...
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1850s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Lagoon: Noon
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James McNeill Whistler (1830-1903), Lagoon: Noon, etching and drypoint, 1879-1880, signed with the butterfly and inscribed “imp” on the tab [also signed with the butterfly in the plate lower left]. Reference: Glasgow 209, third state (of 3), Kennedy 216, third state (of 3); Lochnan 231, 4 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches.
A fine impression with very little plate tone, and printed with extraordinary attention to the etching and drypoint details. The printed butterfly, usually only barely visible, is clearly defined in this impression (see detail below). Kennedy mades special note that an impression like this, with the clearly visible butterfly, was in the collection of John H. Wrenn.
On a commission from the Fine Arts Society, Whistler created the plates of his Venice series...
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1870s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Drypoint, Etching
Battersea Morn (also Battersea Dawn)
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1830-1903), Battersea Morn (also Battersea Dawn), drypoint, 1875, Kennedy 155, signed in pencil with the butterfly and inscribed “imp”. Kennedy 155, first state (of ...
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1870s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Drypoint
Penny Passengers, Limehouse
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), Penny Passengers, Limehouse, 1860. Etching and drypoint, signed in pencil with a butterfly and inscribed imp, printed in black ink on laid paper, trimmed at the platemark, leaving a signature tab, an impression in the second (final) state, one of only six recorded, 31/4 x 81/8 inches (8.2 x 20.7 cm)
A fine impression of this great rarity.
Provenance: Otto Gerstenberg, stamp verso [Lugt 2785]
Reference: Kennedy 67; Glasgow 71
The buildings on the far bank of the Thames and the ship and their masts moored there show the distinctive draughtsmanship of the period 1859–1860 when Whistler worked in Limehouse and made an etching there which was published in the Thames Set. Penny Passengers, Limehouse is very rare, with only five impressions known, all but our impression in public collections. It shows in outline a group of passengers waiting for the ferry...
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1860s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
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Drypoint, Etching
The Little Mast
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Little Mast, etching, drypoint and burnishing, 1879-80, signed in pencil with the early shaded butterfly lower left and annotated “imp”. References: G...
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1870s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
The Sisters
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834 Lowell, Massachusetts – London 1903
The Sisters 1894/95
transfer lithograph with scraping, printed on ivory laid Jap...
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1890s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
