James Abott Mc Neil WHISTLER
1834 - 1903
The fair
1895/1896
Lithographic transfer
205 × 155 mm, margins 310 × 220 mm
Fine impression on laid cream paper, final state, after suppression of shadows on the ground in the middle of the composition, of posthumous edition printed to 30 impressions, published by Goulding, the 11 of april 1904 (contemporary edition printed to 12 impressions), paper loss in the right lower corner.
Watermark: ML AG (Spink, Stratis, Tedeschi, fil. n° 215, find on others posthumous impressions)
Provenance: Rosalind Birnie Philip (L. 405, at reverse the stamp mentioned the posthumous edition (cf. Stratis, Spink, Tedeschi I p. 21)
Reference: Way 92, Spink, Stratis et Tedeschi 135 ii/ii
The lithographic stone was scratch in 1904