?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Amsterdam, from the Tolhuis.
Etching and drypoint on thin, laid Japan paper, 1863. 135x207 mm; 5 3/8x8 1/4 inches, small (full ?) margins. Edition of approximately only 26. MacDonald's fourth state (of 8), with the rope at the upper left removed but before the tops of the masts in the foreground and most of the lines in the sky are burnished out and before the addition of the butterfly lower right. A superb, richly-inked and early impression of this extremely scarce etching.
We have found only 5 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years. Kennedy 91; Glasgow 99.
