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James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne, 1879-80
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne, 1879-80
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne, 1879-80
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne, 1879-80

James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903

Nocturne, 1879-80
signed in pencil with the butterfly and inscribed 'imp', printed in brown ink on laid paper, trimmed at the platemark by the artist, leaving a signature tab
etching
7 ¾ x 11 ½ inches
an impression in the fifth (final) state: published in an edition of 100 in 'Venice: Twelve Etchings', 1880

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Literature

Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, (1910) no.184; Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (Glasgow, 2011) on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk, no.222
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