James McNeill Whistler
The Doorway, 1879-80
etching and drypoint
29.2 x 20 cm
signed with the butterfly and inscribed 'imp.' in pencil to margin; signed with the butterfly in plate; printed in dark brown/warm black ink on laid paper, trimmed at the platemark leaving a signature tab
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An 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. 5 Framed Provenance:...
An 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. 5
Framed
Provenance: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co, London; Thomas Neilson Brown; The Fine Art Society, London, 2007; private collection, England
Exhibited: The Fine Art Society, James McNeill Whistler: The Embroidered Curtain, London, 2007, no. 24
References: 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
Published by The Fine Art Society in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the ‘First Venice Set’), 1880, no. 5
Framed
Provenance: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co, London; Thomas Neilson Brown; The Fine Art Society, London, 2007; private collection, England
Exhibited: The Fine Art Society, James McNeill Whistler: The Embroidered Curtain, London, 2007, no. 24
References: 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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