Whistler, James A. M. THE DOCTOR. Spink 110, Way 78, Levy 117. Lithograph, 1894. One of 33 lifetime impressions printed by Way in 1895 on laid paper watermarked "HN," (Spink's watermark 166; the countermark to watermarks 41-42. (An edition of 3000, printed on wove paper was published in The Pageant in 1896. There was no posthumous printing). The stone was not signed, and this impression is not signed. Rosalind Birnie Philip's square stamp denoting a lifetime impression is on the verso, in the lower left corner. The image is 7 x 5 1/8 inches, 178 x 130 mm, and the sheet is 12 7/16 x 8 1/16 inches, 315 x 205 mm. The subject is Whistler's brother, the surgeon William Whistler. As Whistler selected old laid papers, removed from books or ledgers, and as they might have foxing marks or other defects which he retained in using them for printing, we have presumed the prominent foxing mark in the blank space to the left of the image on this impression to be original to the printing, and have left it untreated. This sheet also has evidence of red ink used to stain the foredges of the book from which it was removed, and an irregular left edge. The print is else in excellent condition.
