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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER Seymour, Seated.
Etching on cream laid Japan paper, 1859. 136x97 mm; 5 3/8x3 3/4 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). A superb impression of this scarce print, with inky plate edges.
We have found only 8 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years.
This is a portrait of Whistler's nephew Seymour Haden, the son of his half-sister Deborah and Francis Seymour Haden, at around 7 years old. It is one of 3 etched portraits of Seymour that Whistler made in the late 1850s, which show the boy in the same Scotch dress and argyle socks. Kennedy 29.
