JAMES ABBOT MCNEILL WHISTLER (BRITISH 1834-19... Lot n° 25

LITTLE COURT, 1880 signed with the artist's butterfly on tab below etching on laid paper 12.5 x 17cm; 5 x 6 3/4in 30.5 x 34cm; 12 x 13 1/4in (framed) Property of a Lady, London Provenance Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, London A gift to the present owner from her stepfather in the late 1990s Literature Edward G Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 , no. 236 Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 244 (on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk) An early etching of the only state published by Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau in 1886 from the Set of Twenty-Six Etchings known as the Second Venice Set. It is thought that Little Court was located off Drury Lane, London.