Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903)
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
Date: 1861
Materials: etching
Dimensions: 15.5 x 21.7cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,080 (Total: £5,200)
Vendor: Susan Schulman Printsellers
Review number: 4962 (2001)
Provenance:
J.H. Hutchinson;BB MacGeorge, sold 1902; Howard Mansfield; Harris G Whittemore; William Sloane-Kinney; Schulman/Bullard, New York.
Description:
An early work showing how Whistler used the etching needle and plate like a sketchbook to select and record figure studies, perhaps as a preparation for a more finished composition.
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