?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Becquet.
Etching and drypoint on antique cream laid paper, 1859. 256x190 mm; 10 1/8x7 1/2 inches, full margins. MacDonald's fifth state (of 6), with the foul-biting from the lower edge of the plate removed but still with the cross mark in the upper left and with all the drypoint distinct, not over-inked as in many later impressions. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil, lower left (the fifth state impression at the Art Institute of Chicago is similarly signed with the butterfly in pencil, accession number 1795). A brilliant, richly-inked and early impression wiyh abundant, velvety burr. Kennedy 52; Glasgow 62.
