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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Reading by Lamp Light.
Etching and drypoint printed in dark, brownish black on antique, cream laid paper, 1859. 158x120 mm; 6 1/4x4 3/4 inches, full margins. MacDonald's third state (of 3), with the diagonal scratch below the cup and saucer removed. A superb, luminous, richly-inked and dark impression with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear.
The sitter is Whistler's half-sister Deborah, wife of Francis Seymour Haden. Kennedy 32; Glasgow 37.
