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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Fulham.
Etching, 1879. 135x205 mm; 5 1/4x8 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2). Signed with the butterfly in pencil, lower left. A very good, dark impression; extremely scarce in this issue.
One of 3 etchings Whistler made of the old Putney (or Fulham) toll bridge in 1879 (see lots 80 and 81) before its destruction. The wooden structure was in disrepair and scheduled for replacement.
Whistler unsuccessfully attempted to avoid bankruptcy with the publication of these and other London etchings following the costly libel trial against John Ruskin in 1879. These were the last etchings he made before accepting the Fine Art Society's commission to go to Venice in September 1879 and produce a set of etchings. Kennedy 182.
