UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Wheelwright

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1924.654)
Number: 240
Date: 1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 127 x 177 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left, faint butterfly upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 9
Known impressions: 29
Catalogues: K.233; M.230; W.162
Impressions taken from this plate  (29)
Wheelwright probably dates from 1881. The butterfly signature is consistent with this date. The etching dates from after Whistler's return from Venice in November 1880, and was first exhibited in 1883. 1

It was published by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with A Set of Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886.

1: London FAS 1883 (cat. no. 3).