Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Abbott McNeill Whistler NPG 3541

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bernard Partridge

Partridge published several caricatures of Whistler in the 1880s and probably made this highly finished drawing towards the end of the decade, showing him in full dandified rig, wearing a monocle and buttonhole and holding the ubiquitous cigarette. The monochrome colour scheme and visible paint washes are a tribute to Whistler's radical artistic style, best known through his 'Nocturnes'. Beside his own signature Partridge also includes Whistler's symbol of a butterfly with a stinger, representing the artist's double-edged character as summarised by William Merritt Chase:... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.