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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ON JAPAN PAPER JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Nursemaid and Child.
Etching and drypoint, 1859. 98x133 mm; 4x5 1/4 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2). A superb impression of this very scarce, early print.
We have found only 9 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years.
This etching was made around the same time as the Landscape with the Horse, lot 35. It shows the artist's half-sister, Deborah Delano Whistler, Francis Seymour Haden's wife, sitting in a park near their London home with one of the young Haden children. Kennedy 37.
