Steps, Amsterdam, 1889

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in dark brown on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 23.7 x 16.4 cm (9 5/16 x 6 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 452, state iv/v

Accession Number

1987.41.75

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower right on the verso of the matboard, along with the title and Kennedy number: 15oo (the oo superscript and underlined)

Provenance

Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson [c. 1829-1891], London, (Lugt 2921); Sotheby's, 3 March 1892 (lot 347); (Deprez & Gutekunst). Given by John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987.

Associated Names

Estabrook, John Nichols, Estate of

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 403, iii/iv.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 452, state iv/v.