Across a wide expanse of water, on which are a number of Dutch sailing boats, two with sails partly raised, appear the buildings and shipping of Amsterdam, under a cloudy sky. In the right lower corner, "Whistler, 1863, à Amsterdam-Tolhuis."
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Kennedy: K. 91
Notes (ownership):
From the H. H. Benedict Collection. Originally from the C. H. Dowdeswell Collection.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Notes (citation):
Kennedy, Edward G. (Edward Guthrie). "The etched work of Whistler ; compiled, arranged and described by Edward G. Kennedy, with an introduction by Royal Cortissoz." Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978, San Francisco.
Notes (object):
First state of four.
Before the butterfly; with the heavy sky.
