James McNeill Whistler

Percy Thomas|James McNeill Whistler|James McNeill Whistler

1874 · Etching, printed in black ink with lithographic (?) tone · Drawings and Prints

Percy Thomas's print is based on a Whistler self-portrait, "Arrangement in Grey: Portrait of the Painter," ca. 1872 (Detroit Institute of Arts). The print was created as a frontispiece for the first catalogue of Whister's etchings, published in London in 1874 by the etcher's brother, Ralph Thomas. Wearing a smock and wide brimmed hat, the subject holds two brushes and is identified by his butterfly mark perched on the edge of the dado behind his shoulder.

Artist

Percy Thomas|James McNeill Whistler|James McNeill Whistler

Date

1874

Medium

Etching, printed in black ink with lithographic (?) tone

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library