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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Bridge, Santa Marta.
Etching and drypoint printed in dark, brownish black on antique, cream laid paper, 1879-80. 296x202 mm; 11 3/4x8 inches. MacDonald's ninth state (of 9), with the butterfly lower right and with all of the delicate shading distinct, including the fine diagonal lines on the stern of the boat lower center. Edition of approximately only 30. Signed with the butterfly and inscribed "imp" in pencil on the tab, lower left. From Twenty-Six Etchings. A superb, well-inked impression of this very scarce etching, with selective wiping in the foreground and along the left side of the plate. Kennedy 204; Glasgow 201.
