May 04, 2006 - Sale 2078

Sale 2078 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 19,550
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
SIGNED IN PENCIL JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Limehouse.

Lithograph on cream wove paper appliqué on off-white plate paper, 1878. 192x281 mm; 7 1/2x11 inches. Second state (of 3), with the tone in the sky, especially around the masts of the ship at the left, printing darkly and clearly and with the fine horizontal lines in the sky. Signed in pencil on the plate paper, lower right. A superb impression of this scarce, early print. Way 4; Levy 9; Spink 7.