Lot Essay
Mother and Child: No. 2: According to Levy, the edition was not printed until about 1895.
Old Westminster Bridge (K. 39)
Details
JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER
Old Westminster Bridge (K. 39)
etching, 1859, on laid paper, signed with the butterfly and inscribed 'imp.' in pencil, with wide margins, scattered pale foxing, light-staining, soiling on the reverse, framed; and Mother and Child: No. 2 (Way 102; Levy 39)--lithograph, 1890, on laid paper, signed in pencil with the butterly at the bottom left, from the lifetime edition of about 20, with full margins, light-stained, mat stained on the reverse, framed (2)
Old Westminster Bridge (K. 39)
etching, 1859, on laid paper, signed with the butterfly and inscribed 'imp.' in pencil, with wide margins, scattered pale foxing, light-staining, soiling on the reverse, framed; and Mother and Child: No. 2 (Way 102; Levy 39)--lithograph, 1890, on laid paper, signed in pencil with the butterly at the bottom left, from the lifetime edition of about 20, with full margins, light-stained, mat stained on the reverse, framed (2)
Provenance
Old Westminster Bridge: Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (L. 1429)
B. Bernard MacGeorge (L. 394)
B. Bernard MacGeorge (L. 394)