James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler (1834-1903) Mother and Daughter (The Sick Mother). 1897. Autograph. 160 x 185. Levy 77; Tedeschi-Stratis 174. Very fine proof on chine volant. Very light oxidation of the folio. Full margins. Final edition of approximately 200 proofs. Created approximately one year after the death of Whistler's wife, Beatrix. The models are his mother-in-law Frances Birnie Philip and one of his sisters-in-law, probably Ethel Whibley, sketched in the drawing room of Whistler's house on rue du Bac.