Mar 07, 2013 - Sale 2306

Sale 2306 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
Thames Warehouses.

Etching and drypoint on antique, cream laid paper, 1859. 75x205 mm; 3x8 1/8 inches, 1/2-inch (full ?) margins. MacDonald's fourth state (of 5), before the corrosion of the plate upper and lower left and before the removal of the diagonal line (formerly a barge) lower left. A superb, early impression, with pentimenti of the shadowy figure holding the pole on the boat at the far right. Kennedy 38; Glasgow 46.