Oct 27, 2010 - Sale 2227

Sale 2227 - Lot 68A

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Sketching, No. 1.

Etching and drypoint, 1861. 122x167 mm; 4 7/8x6 5/8 inches, full margins. Third state (of 4). Published by Day & Son, London. From Passages from Modern English Poets, Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club. A very good, well-inked impression with burr on the seated figure.

This print and the preceeding lot were made during a summer of 1861 sketching trip along the Thames, near Hampton Court and the home of fellow London artist Edwin Edwards, with Haden, Fantin-Latour and Edwards. Kennedy 86.