AMES ABBOTT McNEILL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903)
THE BEGGARS 1879-80 (Glasgow 190 x/xvii: K.194 ii/ix?: M.191: W.159)
Etching and drypoint, from “Venice, a Series of Twelve Etchings” (the ’First Venice Set’)
Trimmed to the platemark as usual with the signed tab. Sheet, 12 x 8 1/4 inches.
A vague butterfly in upper left beam. Exceeding rare, possibly unique in this
Glasgow Xth state. Glasgow unable to locate a copy. Illustrated with only a detail
reproduction from Kennedy with an identical dark man at center. A slight vertical
scratch in the image at lower right, and a few other minor flaws at sheet edges.
Provenance: M. Knoedler plus several other unidentified annotations on verso.
