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James McNeill Whistler

The Fur Tippet: Miss Lenoir

1887
Etching and drypoint with foul biting in brownish black on ivory laid paper
9.8 × 6.8 cm (3.9 × 2.7 in)

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Helen Lenoir is portrayed here in the year before her marriage to Richard D’Oyly Carte.

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