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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Early Morning, Battersea.
Etching and drypoint on thin, cream laid Japan paper, 1859. 114x151 mm; 4 1/2x6 inches, wide (full ?) margins. A superb impression with warm plate tone and all the delicate lines, particularly all the fine lines in the sky, printing clearly.
This is the most atmospheric of the etchings from the 'Thames Set' and anticipates Whistler's nocturnes of the Thames and his Venetian etchings of the late 1870s. The subject of the industrial banks of the Thames south of Chelsea, where Whistler lived in London during the 1860s, was a favorite of the artist. In each of the etchings he made of Battersea, he softened the industrial reality with a more tonal, hazy view.
This early impression on Japan paper succeeds in highlighting these effects, due in part to the absorbancy and warm tone of the sheet. Kennedy 75.
