The Embroidered Curtain, 1889, Etching and drypoint; sixth state of ten (Glasgow); printed in dark brown ink on fine ivory laid paper, Plate: 9 5/16 × 6 1/4 in. (23.7 × 15.9 cm), Prints, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London), Whistler and his new wife Beatrice traveled to Amsterdam in late August 1889, intending a brief stay, but remained for two months. Seventeenth-century buildings on the Palmgracht, near the couple’s hotel, are here used to create a moody, densely patterned image that recalls the artist’s finest Venetian etchings and pays tribute to Rembrandt
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Embroidered Curtain, 1889, Etching, drypoint, sixth state, ten, Glasgow, printed, dark brown ink, fine ivory laid paper, Plate, 9 5/16, 6 1/4, 23.7, 15.9 cm, Prints, James McNeill Whistler, American, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1834–1903, London, Whistler, new wife Beatrice, traveled, Amsterdam, late August, intending, brief stay, remained, two months, Seventeenth-century buildings, Palmgracht, couple, hotel, create, moody, densely patterned, image, recalls, artist, finest, Venetian, etchings, pays tribute, Rembrandt
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