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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Little Pool.
Etching and drypoint on antique, cream laid paper, 1861. 103x125 mm; 4 1/8x5 inches, full margins. MacDonald's ninth state (of 9), with the inscription at the lower edge of the plate removed and before cancellation. Signed with the butterfly in pencil, lower right. Partial coat-of-arms watermark. A brilliant, early, proof-like impression, with abundant burr around the two figures at the left and with all the details distinct.
The seated figure sketching to the left is likely a self portrait by Whistler.
We have not found another signed impression previously offered at auction. Kennedy 74; Glasgow 79.
