GOING TO THE FAIR
New York Satellite Print Fair Selections
New York Satellite Print Fair Selections
- Dürer, Peasant Couple Dancing
- Beham, The Country Wedding
- Pencz, The Life of Christ
- Bonasone, The Vision of St. Jerome
- Callot, La Noblesse
- Della Bella, Death on Horseback
- Belloni, Ercole in Tebe
- Filloeul, Différents Caractères
- Canaletto, Imaginary View of Venice
- Piranesi, The Temple of Pola
- Basan, Dictionnaire des Graveurs
- Earlom, A Fruit Piece
- Janinet, Restes du Palais du Pape
- Terebenef, Caricature of Napoléon
- Gericault, Horses Going to a Fair
- Devéria, Music in the Salon
- Whistler, Limehouse
- Fulleylove, Church of Santa Fosca
- Buhot, Le Retour des Artistes
- Forain, En Cabinet Particulier
- Short, The Night Picket Boat
- Corinth, The Old King
- Hassam, Madonna of the North End
- Ensor, Bataille des Éperons
- Gandara, Portrait de Femme
- Higgins, Figure on the Stairs
- Orlik, Karrenschreber
- Laboureur, Images Bretonnes
- Laboureur, Flower Sellers, London
- Thorne, Pony and Bug
- Torre-Bueno, West 86th Street
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17. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) Limehouse |
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Limehouse
Lithotint, 1878, 173 x 263 mm., Way 4; Levy 8-9; Spink/Chicago 7 ii/iii. Very fine impression of this rare lithotint, printed on off-white chine (or japan) appliqued to thick, white wove paper with large margins (sheet size 333 x 430 mm.), signed Whistler in pencil in the lower right margin and as published by Notes. The Notes edition was 30 and Way records 35 impressions in all, presumably including a few proofs. The stone deteriorated after the edition and Spink records only 2 impressions of the third state, which attempted, unsuccessfully, to restore the balance of the image. The presence of a script signature here (as in the Chicago and Freer impressions) confirms that this impression was printed in 1878/79. The lithotint technique allowed Whistler to be both painter and print maker simultaneously and the resultant image here must be accounted one of his greatest
