Exhibition of etchings
An 1903 exhibition catalogue published in London by Obach & Company, presenting etchings by James McNeill Whistler for a gallery audience. The single plate is a loose, sketchy etched portrait of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat, with dense hatching behind his head and open, unfinished passages across his coat and hands, showing how etching lines alone can suggest form and atmosphere for a designer studying tonal line work.
