The Kitchen
This impression was made from a cancelled plate. The print had been published by Whistler in November 1858 in "Douze eaux-fortes d’après nature" (Twelve Etchings from Nature), known as the "French Set" (see 17.3.19, 17.3.20 for examples of the second state from the "French Set" and 67.630.53 for a third state published by the Fine Art Society, London).
Credit: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
[1858] republished 1885
Etching with drypoint cancellation lines; from the cancelled plate (glasgow);
black ink on pale green laid paper with unread letters watermark
black ink on pale green laid paper with unread letters watermark
22.5 x 15.6cm
23.65.79
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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