Inscription
lower left in plate: Whistler / 1861.; on sheet: Only to show you mon cher that I have not forgotten - In a day or two, both these plates / will be ready - there is very little retouching to do -; Do find my notation -; This is a proof I pulled myself at Day's -
Provenance
Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 85.
- 2012
- MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 82, ii/vi. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk