An impression in the eighth (final) state
One of an edition of 100 impressions printed before publication in The Portfolio, 1878
Framed

Provenance: The Fine Art Society, London, 2007; private collection, England

Exhibited: The Fine Art Society, James McNeill Whistler: The Embroidered Curtain, London, 2007, no. 11

References: R. Thomas, A Catalogue of the Etchings and Drypoints of James Abbott MacNeil Whistler (London 1874), no. 34;
F. Wedmore, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London 1886), no. 45;
H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago 1909), no. 46;
E.G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (New York 1910), no. 47;
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. 51