James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903
Chelsea, 1878-79
signed with the butterfly in plate; printed in black ink on wove paper
etching and drypoint
an impression in the fifth (final state)
5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches (13.3 x 20.7 cm)
Literature
F. Wedmore, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London 1886), no. 148;H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago 1909), no. 179;
E.G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (New York 1910), no. 182;
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. 181
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