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James McNeill Whistler, Penny Passengers, Limehouse, 1860
James McNeill Whistler, Penny Passengers, Limehouse, 1860
James McNeill Whistler, Penny Passengers, Limehouse, 1860
James McNeill Whistler, Penny Passengers, Limehouse, 1860

James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903

Penny Passengers, Limehouse, 1860
signed in pencil with a butterfly and inscribed 'imp', printed in black ink on laid paper, trimmed at the platemark, leaving a signature tab
etching and drypoint
an impression in the second (final) state, one of only six recorded
3 ¼ x 8 ⅛ inches

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Provenance

Otto Gerstenberg, stamp verso [Lugt 2785]

Exhibitions

The Fine Art Society, London and C.G. Boerner, New York, James McNeill Whistler Prints, 2016, no.25

Literature

Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné (Glasgow, 2011) on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk, no.71
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