?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Free Trade Wharf.
Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black on thin cream Japan paper, 1877. 98x186 mm; 3 7/8x7 3/8 inches, full margins. MacDonald's fourth state (of 8), before the horizontal drypoint shading above the ships and before the addition of clouds above the warehouses to the right. Signed with the butterfly in pencil, lower right. A superb, dark and early impression with warm plate tone. Kennedy 163; Glasgow 171.
