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JAMES A. M. WHISTLER The Little Putney, No. 1.
Etching printed in dark brown on heavy cream wove paper, 1879. 131x205 mm; 5 1/8x8 inches, small margins. Second state (of 2), likely a proof in this state, with the dark, shaded butterfly lower right but before the plate edges are cleaned, with the delicate lines in the water and with crisp, unbevelled plate marks. Soft diagonal crease through the image. A very good impression.
Whistler might have etched views of the wooden bridges spanning the Thames, like Putney Bridge (and even structures like the Adam and Eve tavern, lot 76) to preserve a record of old London, much like the etcher Charles Meryon in Paris during the 1850s. Putney Bridge, joining Putney and Fulham, was torn down in 1880. Kennedy 179.
