Nov 12, 2020 - Sale 2550

Sale 2550 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Little Putney Bridge.

Etching printed in dark brownish black on antique cream laid paper, 1879. 132x207 mm; 5 1/8x8 1/8 inches, full margins. MacDonald's fourth state (of 5), with the shaded butterfly lower right, and with the delicate lines in the water and some indication of the clouds above the bridge. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil, lower left. Published by the Printseller's Association, London, with the blind stamp lower left. A very good, richly-inked, early impression. Kennedy 179; Glasgow 186.