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JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903)
Two Prints by the Artist
Including: Street at Saverne, etching, 1858; The Pool, etching, 1859
Image: 818 x 614 in. (206 x 159 mm.)
Sheet: 1278 x 918 in. (327 x 232 mm.)
Literature
Kennedy 19 & 43; Glasgow 14 & 49
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Whistler crafted this etching while visiting a fellow student’s house in Saverne. The etching of a deserted street in the town is one of the most powerful works in the Twelve Etchings from Nature series. It shows a knowledge of etching, and is unique among Whistler’s prints in its suspense and mystery.
-Exhibition Catalogue for An Exhibition of Etchings Dry Points & Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler P & D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 1971, p. 4

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