LITTLE COURT, 1880
signed with the artist's butterfly on tab below
etching on laid paper
12.5 x 17cm; 5 x 6 3/4in
30.5 x 34cm; 12 x 13 1/4in (framed)

Property of a Lady, London

Provenance
Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, London
A gift to the present owner from her stepfather in the late 1990s

Literature
Edward G Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910 , no. 236
Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 244 (on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk)

An early etching of the only state published by Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau in 1886 from the Set of Twenty-Six Etchings known as the Second Venice Set. It is thought that Little Court was located off Drury Lane, London.