Fish Women, Ostend |  Colby College Museum of Art, Maine (2013.349) | |
| Number: | 349 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 96 x 133 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 3 | |
| Catalogues: | K.349; M.349 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (3) | ||
Fish Women, Ostend probably dates from September 1887, when Whistler is known to have visited Belgium (Walter Dowdeswell commented on 15 September, 'he's away at Ostende'). 1 The butterfly signature on the plate is consistent with a date about 1887.
1: W. Dowdeswell to W. A. Ingram, 15 September 1887, GUW #11320.
The etching could stylistically have dated from 1886, but it does not appear in Wedmore's catalogue of 1886, 2 which suggests (although his listing is not entirely comprehensive) that it is of a later date.
2: Wedmore 1886 A.