James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903
The Forge, 1861
signed and dated 1861 in plate; printed in black ink on thin Japan paper
drypoint
an impression in the sixth (final) state
7 ¾ x 12 ½ inches (19.7 x 31.9 cm)
Literature
R. Thomas, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler (London 1874), no. 57;F. Wedmore, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London 1886), no. 63;
H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago 1909), no. 68;
E.G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (New York 1910), no. 68;
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. 86
