Chelsea

 

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

  1834 - 1903 (biography)

1878 -'79/printed 1882 

photogravure after the etching and drypoint 

5 3/16 x 7 15/16" platemark 

butterfly, lower right 

not applicable 

engraved below image: 'Chelsea', lower center, 'Drawn and etched by J.A. McNeil [sic] Whistler.', lower center, 'New York, Patterson & Neilson.' 

Kennedy 182, Mansfield 179, Wedmore 148, Glasgow 181; The Art Journal, 1882, p. 136 

heavyweight ivory wove 

v/v 

The Art Journal, London and New York (this being from the American publisher, Patterson and Neilson, New York, May 1882) 

21300 

$100.00 

A photogravure published by The Art Journal, May 1882, after Whistler's etching and drypoint. 'Chelsea' was part of series Whistler executed of bridges spanning the River Thames.