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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Little Pool.
Etching and drypoint printed in black on antique, cream laid paper, 1861. 103x125 mm; 4 1/8x5 inches, full margins. MacDonald's ninth state (of 9), with the inscription lower edge removed and with rounded plate corners. A superb, early impression with very strong contrasts.
The seated figure sketching to the left is likely a self portrait by Whistler (his features appear more pronounced as those of Whistler with further work on the plate, by the seventh state, and it has been suggested that Whistler had another man sit in his place while he was creating the plate in order to draw in this figure). Kennedy 74; Glasgow 79.
