James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903
Limehouse, 1859
signed and dated 1859 in plate; printed in black ink on thin Japan paper
etching and drypoint
an impression in the third (final) state
5 x 8 inches (12.8 x 20.4 cm)
Provenance
The Fine Art Society, London, 2007; private collection, EnglandExhibitions
The Fine Art Society, James McNeill Whistler: The Embroidered Curtain, London, 2007, no. 8
Literature
R. Thomas, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler (London 1874), no. 39;F. Wedmore, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London 1886), no. 37;
H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago 1909), no. 39;
E.G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (New York 1910), no. 40;
M.F. MacDonald, G. Petri, M. Hausberg, and J. Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, (Glasgow 2011), on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk, no. 48
