May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Street at Saverne.

Etching and open-bite printed in dark brownish black on warm, cream Japan paper, 1858. 208x158 mm; 8 1/8x6 1/4 inches, full margins. MacDonald's fourth state (of 4), with Delâtre's name and address removed. Ex-collection Knoedler, New York, with their stock number in pencil, lower right recto, and with the original label. Printed by Delâtre, Paris. From Twelve Etchings from Nature. A brilliant, luminous, early and richly-inked impression with all the details distinct, with no sign of wear and with the lantern at right and other parts of the plate inked in the manner of a monotype. Kennedy 19; Glasgow 14.