Word: fiddlers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...masterpieces in engraving including Pollainole's Battle of the Nudes, Mantegna's Virgin and Child, and Battle of the Lea Gods; Albrecht Durer's Melancholia, Knight of Death, Adam and Eve, St. Gerome in his Cell; Rembrandt's Three Trees, and Three Crosses; and the Black Lion Wharf, and Fiddler; by Whistler. A group of old engraver's tools serve to make clearer the technical processes, and to make the exhibition more interesting...
...etchings by Whistler are largely from the Thames set etched about 1859, and include very fine impressions of the Black Lion Wharf, the Lime Burners, The Pool and Little Pool. The portrait of Bocquet, "The Fiddler", bears in Whistler's handwriting, the words "Fine proof". There are also several etchings of a later period, showing his later style, from the Venice subjects--as "The Doorway", "Rialto", and "Furnace Nocturne". The "Nocturne Palaces" is one of Whistler's famous Nocturnes and shows the effect which he produces in the wiping of the plate...