The Embroidered Curtain, 1889, Etching and drypoint; sixth state of ten (Glasgow) ; printed in dark brown ink on fine ivory laid paper, Plate: 9 5/16 ? 6 1/4 in. (23. 7 ? 15. 9 cm), Prints, James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834?1903 London), Whistler and his new wife Beatrice traveled to Amsterdam in late August 1889, intending a brief stay, but remained for two months. Seventeenth-century buildings on the Palmgracht, near the couple's hotel, are here used to create a moody, densely patterned image that recalls the artist's finest Venetian etchings and pays tribute to Rembrandt