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The Steps, Amsterdam

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1906.112)
Number: 452
Date: 1889
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 242 x 166 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 5
Known impressions: 14
Catalogues: K.403; M.402; W.260
Impressions taken from this plate  (14)
The Steps, Amsterdam dates from 1889. Whistler and his wife were in the Netherlands from 24 August to 20 October 1889.
Etchings done at that time include The Square House, Amsterdam [454], Balcony, Amsterdam [446], The Long House (The Dyers, Amsterdam) [453], The Embroidered Curtain [451] and Jews' Quarter, Amsterdam [449].