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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Little Mast.
Etching printed in black on Japan paper, 1879-80. 269x189 mm; 10 5/8x7 1/2 inches, full margins. MacDonald's second state (of 8), with the middle figure in the group of figures immediately to the right of the buildings at right background still indistinct. Inscribed "1st state" in pencil on the tab, lower right. Ex-collection John H. Wrenn, Chicago, with the ink stamp (Lugt 1475, on the tab verso). From Twelve Etchings. A superb, richly-inked and early proof impression with very strong contrasts; an impression printed prior to 1881 in Venice or London. Kennedy 185; Glasgow 196.
