Etching in dark brownish black on cream laid paper, 1879-1880. 200x293 mm; 8x11 5/8 inches, full margins. MacDonald's first state (of 2), before cancellation. Edition of approximately 44. Signed with the butterfy and inscribed "imp" in pencil on the tab, lower left. Published by Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau, London. From Twenty-six Etchings. A superb, well-inked and warm impression of this important etching. Kennedy 206; Glasgow 230.
