UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Embroidered Curtain

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46999)
Number: 451
Date: 1889
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 239 x 161 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 10
Known impressions: 27
Catalogues: K.410; M.411
Impressions taken from this plate  (27)
The Embroidered Curtain, Amsterdam dates from 1889. Whistler and his wife stayed in Amsterdam for nearly two months, from 24 August to 20 October 1889.
Etchings done at that time include The Steps, Amsterdam [452], The Square House, Amsterdam [454], Balcony, Amsterdam [446], The Long House (The Dyers, Amsterdam) [453], and Jews' Quarter, Amsterdam [449].