The Kitchen

James McNeill Whistler American

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This impression was made from a cancelled plate. The print had been published by Whistler in November 1858 in "Douze eaux-fortes d’après nature" (Twelve Etchings from Nature), known as the "French Set" (see 17.3.19, 17.3.20 for examples of the second state from the "French Set" and 67.630.53 for a third state published by the Fine Art Society, London).

The Kitchen, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), Etching with drypoint cancellation lines; from the cancelled plate (Glasgow);
black ink on pale green laid paper with unread letters watermark

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