This fashionably dressed young lady was one of several created by Whistler including: The Velvet Dress (1873/74), Tatting (1874), and Maude Standing (1876/78). In 1886, English art critic Frederick Wedmore observed, “A young woman seated, having come to pay a morning call, and meaning to be pleasant ... A scarce little dry-point, of elegant and refined triviality – if, indeed, it is to be trivial to be entirely of our day.”
