James McNeill Whistler
The Traghetto, No. 2, 1880
signed with a butterfly and inscribed 'imp' in pencil to margin; signed with the butterfly in plate; printed in black ink on laid paper, watermark circle of pearls
etching and drypoint
24 x 31 cm
An impression in the fifth state (of nine) Published by The Fine Art Society in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the ‘First Venice Set’), 1880 Framed Provenance: Samuel Josefowitz;...
An impression in the fifth state (of nine)
Published by The Fine Art Society in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the ‘First Venice Set’), 1880
Framed
Provenance: Samuel Josefowitz; The Fine Art Society, London, 2005; private collection, England
References: F. Wedmore, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London 1886), no. 156;
H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago 1909), no. 188;
E.G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (New York 1910), no. 191;
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. 233
Published by The Fine Art Society in Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings (the ‘First Venice Set’), 1880
Framed
Provenance: Samuel Josefowitz; The Fine Art Society, London, 2005; private collection, England
References: F. Wedmore, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue (London 1886), no. 156;
H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Chicago 1909), no. 188;
E.G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler (New York 1910), no. 191;
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. 233
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