James Abbott McNeill Whistler
1834 Lowell, MA – 1903 London
The Garden, 1879/1880
Etching and drypoint. Size of plate mark: 30.5 x 23.5 cm.
Signed with artist's monogram ('butterfly') on plate and inscribed 'imp' in pencil on the tab.
Literature: Kennedy, No. 210;
Glasgow 194, XV/XV.
Provenance: Charles H. Ellingwood, New York (Lugt 822);
Kennedy Galleries, New York (their stock n° in pencil on verso);
with André Candillier, Paris, 2008.
Glasgow records 42 other known impressions. It was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (The Second Venice Set) in 1886.
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