May 06, 2021 - Sale 2566

Sale 2566 - Lot 180

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER
The Dog on the Kennel.

Etching printed in black on cream wove ledger paper, 1858. 71x89 mm; 2 3/4x3 1/2 inches, wide margins. MacDonald's second state (of 2), with the shading lines above the dog reduced. A superb, richly-inked impression of this very scarce, early etching, with crisp, inky plate edges.

MacDonald cites 20 known impressions; we have found only 9 impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Kennedy 18; Glasgow 19.