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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Jo's Bent Head.
Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1861. 226x152 mm; 8 7/8x6 inches, small margins. MacDonald's third state (of 3). A very good impression of this scarce, early print.
According to MacDonald, there are approximately 30 recorded impressions of this subject.
The model is Joanna Hiffernan, Whistler's red-headed Irish mistress; she was also the sitter for Whistler's famous painting, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1861, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Kennedy 78; Glasgow 88.
