The Embroidered Curtain

JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903) The Embroidered Curtain etching, 1889, printed in brown, on laid paper, watermark Pro Patria, signed with the butterfly on the tab and annotated imp, a fine, luminous impression of the lightly etched first state (of seven), in addition to the 27 impressions in all states recorded so far by the Whistler Etchings Project, trimmed to the plate as published, in very good condition Image, Sheet: 9½ x 6¼ in. (240 x 159 mm.)