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James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903
The Doorway, 1879-80signed with the butterfly and inscribed 'imp.' in pencil to margin; printed in dark brown/warm black ink on laid paper, trimmed at the platemark leaving a signature tabetching and drypointan impression in the ninth state (of twenty), published by The Fine Art Society in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the ‘First Venice Set’), 1880, no. 511 ½ x 8 inches (29.2 x 20 cm)Provenance
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co, London; Thomas Neilson Brown; The Fine Art Society, London, 2007; private collection, England
Exhibitions
Selected exhibitions:
The Fine Art Society, J. McNeill Whistler: Venice, etchings in drypoint, London, 1880 (cat. no. 5, a different impression);
Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1889 (cat. no. 419, a different impression);
International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 225, a different impression);
The Fine Art Society, James McNeill Whistler: The Embroidered Curtain, London, 2007, no. 24 (this impression)
Literature
F. Wedmore, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London, 1886), no. 154; H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago 1909), no. 185; E.G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (New York 1910), no. 188; 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. 193
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