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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER St James's Street.
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 1878. 275x152 mm; 10 7/8x6 inches, full margins. MacDonald's fourth state (of 4), before cancellation. A very good, well-inked impression of this scarce etching. MacDonald notes 36 impressions in public collections.
Whistler drew this scene directly on an etching plate, sitting by a balcony at the Albemarle Hotel looking down St. James's Street. The etching was commissioned by Vanity Fair, where it was reproduced by lithographic transfer; Whistler used the commission to raise funds toward his financial troubles stemming from the libel suit against the art crtic John Ruskin. Kennedy 169; Glasgow 178.
