Pierrot, 1889, Etching and drypoint; sixth state of eight (Glasgow) ; printed in dark brown ink on medium weight ivory laid paper, Plate: 9 1/8 ? 6 1/4 in. (23. 1 ? 15. 9 cm), Prints, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834?1903 London), In an old district of Amsterdam, Whistler represents two figures emerging from a shadowed workshop at the edge of a canal. Leaning against a slender post, a young man clad in an apron looks across the water as his female companion dips a cloth into it