JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Battersea Dawn (Cadogan Pier).
Etching and drypoint on thin, cream laid Japan paper, 1863. 114x151 mm; 4 1/2x6 inches, full margins. MacDonald's second state (of 2). A superb impression with plate tone and all the lines distinct, with strong contrasts and crisp, inky plate edges.
MacDonald cites a small group of impressions of this subject from the second state on Japan paper; there are similar impressions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Kennedy 75; Glasgow 95.
